Struggle For Change Dbq

They were also treated less than men and sometimes to this day we see women being treated discriminated. For example on page 68 Jane was talking to her father about how she wanted to go to college. “‘A college for women,’” Jane said hastily “‘They have lots of them now - Vassar,Smith, Barnard…’” Father was scowling and shaking his head “‘Why,that’s preposterous,’” he said. “‘Almost as preposterous as women wanting to vote.’” Well. So that was what he thought of women’s rights. A year ago ,month ago, maybe even a day ago, it wouldn’t have mattered”. Jane’s father thought this because men believed women were inferior. Education for women was uncommon, mainly because women were they ones that had to take care of the home and kids, and men would get an education. On page 150 another example of how women fought and had strikes for women’s suffrage. They were dedicated and devoted to the strike . “The police are for our protection,not our abuse, strikers seeking justice; votes for women”.The women are so passionate about having the right to vote that they are willing to stand out in the cold or heat to get their message across to the people that they should be treated equal and not like they are worthless. Men did not want women to vote because men did not believe women were intelligent and eligible to vote since they did not have a proper education to

The entire Women’s Movement in the United States has been quite extensive. It can be traced back to 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. After two days of discussions, 100 men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this document called for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. This gathering set the agenda for the rest of the Women’s Movement long ago (Imbornoni). Over the next 100 years, many women played a part in supporting equal treatment for women, most notably leading to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which allowed women the right to vote.

The origin of the women’s rights movement traces back many years to the Seneca Falls Convention. The proposal for Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments” occurred at this convention in New York in July 1848. Stanton, along with Lucretia Mott, entertained the idea of such an event during the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. These two women were told that they could not partake in the convention based solely on gender. After African Americans had finally been granted their right to vote, women felt it was unfair that they still could not participate during elections.

Sojourner Truth was an advocate for women's rights as well as for abolishing slavery. Her work still lives on today. Millions of people worldwide look to her work for inspiration when the times get tough or they feel like they are being discriminated against, they look to Lucille Clifton for the millions of slaves who died on plantations and died with no names. No one to remember who they were or what they did. Only the accomplishments of that the manors and southern residences that we appreciate today. They don't remember the people but they will always remember the work they did. Lucille Clifton even in 1989 still had such hard feeling for the way they were treated that she worked and wrote many things regarding it. She called them nameless which is true if you were to google the large southern manners you could find the families that owned them. You however cannot find the slaves that built them. The blood sweat and tears they had to yield for us to admire their creations. There were forgotten like many others in their place but there work will live on

In the article “The Rights of Women” by Frederick Douglass, he talks and supports the idea of women's right to vote. Using strong diction and telegraphic sentence, he underscores that women should receive the right to vote because it gives them a chance to involve in the politic since they obey laws, and basically a voice in the society which would helps end the segregation between men and women in the society. In the first paragraph, while talking about the documents that could help with this process, Douglass says, “Declaration of Sentiments...as the basis of a grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women.” This implies that women did not receive a lot of rights in the society compared to men at

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress” (“Frederick Douglass ‘Struggle’”). Spoken in 1857 by Frederick Douglass, these words became another motivation for all enslaved African Americans seeking freedom, for all the oppressed yearning to overcome. One hundred years later, even after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the ratification of the 14th Amendment, these words continued to motivate many African Americans, as the fight for equality was far from over. African Americans throughout the nation recognized a time of desperate need for change, and began to demonstrate and protest in The Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a long-lasting campaign for racial equality that occurred in the 1950’s and 1960’s (History.com

Sojourner Truth is a familiar name in the world of African American history. Her name is recognized as being one of the most influential in the abolitionist movement. Her work is also reflected in the area of women’s rights. It is because of her involvement in the fight for the improvement of life for all people that Sojourner Truth is the most influential women in African American history and a symbol of faith and justice.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women had very few rights. In the United States, women could not vote or own property. Without any say in politics, the battle for rights was long and strenuous. After the Seneca Falls convention was held in 1848, the women’s suffrage movement took off. Once women were able to vote, gaining more rights would become much easier.

One point that Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes is that the man never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. This is very true seeing that women were not even allowed to work because their place was at the home where they were to raise the family. If women did work for a part time they would not get even close to the amount of money that males get. She also states that he has taken from her all right in property, even the wages that she earns. Women at this time were not allowed to own property. She also states that he has withheld her from her rights, which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men, which even includes foreigners. This meant even if you were the smartest, kindest, and most willing to work hard woman alive, you still would be treated worse than the least respected man.

Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments that explained areas where there was injustice towards women, influenced by the Declaration of Independence, in which she “connected the nascent campaign for women’s rights directly to that powerful American symbol of liberty” (Women’s History.) Stanton’s bravery beautifully depicts the attitude necessary to reach justice, her attempt to compare the writing to the Declaration of Independence allowed society to accept the idea, yet people were too naive and the idea failed. After that, the Women’s Rights Movements began. Then the first Women’s Rights Movement began where Stanton tirelessly disputed the ideas presented in the Declaration of Sentiments. The people would not agree to let women vote in elections.

Sojourner Truth, was an African American woman born a slave. Her birth name was Isabella Baumfree. Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of women’s rights (Morgan, Thad 2013). Her accomplishments include on helping other African American’s gain their rights. Another was involving herself in on the Women’s Rights Convention.

     Sojourner Truth is well known for her famous "ain't I a Woman?" speech at the 1851 women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Their Sojourner Truth spoke of the injustices of our society, within which women as well as Black-Americans were at the back end. No formal record of the speech exists, but Frances Gage, an abolitionist and president of the Convention, recounted the speech.

In the nineteenth century, civil rights were becoming a topic of discussion, as more and more people decided that inequality wasn't okay. Slaves had been emancipated a few years before the issue of the female voice in politics was acknowledged. Women were beginning to have more rights and independence. They were now able to own their own property and a federal law for equal pay for equal work was passed. However, there were still revisions to be made. In 1888, Isabella Beecher Hooker went before the International Council of Women to discuss why women should be granted suffrage. Preceding her address, an unnamed individual went before the Senate's Committee on Privileges and Elections in response to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give women a right to vote in 1878. Both of these passages have very different takes on the subjects, one is for and one is against women being granted suffrage, but they both agree on one thing: female's ability to defend the country.

Struggling for change can change the course of history. Many people today think that everyone was equal and no one had to fight for change. This is a false statement and even to this day everyone is not equal and still gets discriminated against. Two groups of people that have had to struggle and fight for change is women and African Americans. They have had to overcome insurmountable obstacles just to get where they are today.

(Goldfield, 338) Since the cult of domesticity was making women inferior to men, women decided to do as the slaves did and fight for their own freedom. The women’s rights movement began in the mid-1800s. Female and male abolitionist found it necessary that women should be able to have the same rights as men. Just because biologically they are different, it does not mean they do not deserve the same rights. Women were denied the right to vote, property and a right to an education or job. (Goldfield, 338) At first the women’s movement was slow. Many women were afraid to speak out in fear of being shunned by their community. This was a brand new scary task that Women for the first time were going to deal with. A women speaking out against the norms of society was seen as a terrible thing to do. When you have many women speaking out for the same thing a change must be done. When the first national convention for women’s rights was called in Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were able to successfully use the Declaration of Independence as a model for their own Declaration of Sentiments. (Goldfield, 339) In their Declaration they branded that “male patriarchy as the source of women’s oppression” (Goldfield, 339) Stanton and Mott called for full women’s rights and to become independent citizens. Although the fight for women’s rights was always an important issue, most abolitionists deemed it less important