Essay on The New Suffragists

Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffragesupporters lectured, wrote, marched and disobeyed many rules to change in the Constitution. parades, silence and hunger strikes where used to demonstrate the need for a change in the constitution. Women struggled for their rights ,and they struggled equally to black americans who desired voting rights as well(The Fifteenth Amendment., Susan Banfield pp.11-20).

It was Theodore Roosevelt, who stated that, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care”, conveying the idea that with no voice comes no change. In the morning of August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified, which centralized mainly on the enfranchisement of women. Today, they have the legal right to vote, and the ability to speak openly for themselves, but most of all they are now free and equal citizens. However this victorious triumph in American history would not have been achieved without the strong voices of determined women, risking their lives to show the world how much they truly cared. Women suffragists in the 19th century had a strong passion to change their lifestyle, their jobs around the

In the 1920’s women suffrage was a substantial impact because that year women gained the right to vote and run for office. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right (“The Fight” par. 1). Before the Election Day in 1920, women didn’t have the right to vote or basically do anything a man could do. Women fought against the court and formed multiple groups until they made a change in the law, to let women vote. Many American women were tired of being known as an unimportant role in their generation. They were beginning to become annoyed with what historians referred them as which was “a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family” (“The Fight” par. 2). “All of these contributed to a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a women and a citizen in the United States”(“The Fight” par. 2). “The suffrage movement in the United States gained prominence with the first women’s rights convention in the world”(“Women’s Suffrage” par. 5). Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention in 1848. “American

The Women’s Suffrage Movement of the 1920’s worked to grant women the right to vote nationally, thereby allowing women more political equality. Due to many industrial and social changes during the early 19th century, many women were involved in social advocacy efforts, which eventually led them to advocate for their own right to vote and take part in government agencies. Women have been an integral part of society, working to help those in need, which then fueled a desire to advocate for their own social and political equality. While many women worked tirelessly for the vote, many obstacles, factions, and ultimately time would pass in order for women to see the vote on the national level. The 19th Amendment, providing women the right to vote, enable women further their pursuit for full inclusion in the working of American society.

The struggle to gain suffrage was not easy: anti-suffragists and the gender norms of society constantly interfered, leading to nearly a century-long battle of rights. Unlike preconceived notions about the suffrage movements of the nineteenth century, not all women wanted to obtain suffrage and women 's organizations weren 't always focused on the right to vote itself, but rather were radical. Change and new leadership were needed to refocus and improve women 's suffrage organizations in order to win against their enemy: the indifference of American women. "The Suffrage Renaissance: A New Image for a New Century, 1896-1910", written by Sara Hunter Graham, challenges those initial ideas and provides insight about how woman suffrage movements evolved. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the unification and rebirth of woman suffrage groups became crucial changes that led to obtaining suffrage.

Alice Paul was a women’s rights activist during the 1900’s and she became the official advocate for women’s suffrage, or the right for women to vote, through the NAWSA as well as other ways (Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene, 1). In her young life, Alice Paul had already accomplished so much more than many other women who had also fought towards women’s suffrage before her. Alice Paul was a radical figure for the women in her day and is still a radical figure for present day women (Siegel, 1). Alice Paul worked to bring suffrage, or the right to vote, to all women in the United States of America (Siegel, 1). She dedicated most of her life towards the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment or the Suffrage Amendment (Siegel, 1). Alice Paul, an activist

Women’s Suffrage is a subject that could easily be considered a black mark on the history of the United States. The entire history of the right for women to vote takes many twists and turns but eventually turned out alright. This paper will take a look at some of these twists and turns along with some of the major figures involved in the suffrage movement.

The struggle for justice and equality is a struggle that endures. The Socialist toils so he and his comrades may one day be treated as humans, not as beasts of burden. The Suffragist applies herself assiduously so she and her sisters may one day be as treated humans, not as entities relegated to the domestic sphere and categorically absolved of civic duty. Fundamentally, they are two sides of a singular coin as both challenge the oppression cast down on the lower classes by our society’s plutocrats and their ilk. Clearly it would profit the Socialist to cohere his efforts with those of the Suffragist and work to realize both their goals concurrently.

Although the campaign for women’s suffrage started before the civil war you can see how long it took them to get what they wanted. With all the other ‘non-equal’ events going on all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the United States–temperance clubs, religious movements and moral-reform societies, anti-slavery organizations–and in many of these, women played a

This was not an easy journey for women. They were fighting for this right for a long time but it was never passed into a law. It was one of the most important right women progressives were fighting for. Even after the ratification of 16th and 17th amendment, women were yet to be given their right to vote. This angered many women and some even started using racial language against African Americans since they got their right to vote before the women ever did. There was a major division amongst some women as well. Some upper-class white women believed that women should not have the right to vote. Their argument was that women are virtually represented in the politics by their husband or a male family member. If the women were given the right to vote, they would vote against their husband's. The President of that time, Woodrow Wilson, was against women’s suffrage movement as well. After a long fight, in 1919, both houses passed the 19th amendment. It was finally ratified in 1920 to make it the law of the land, which enabled women to vote. After a hard fought battle, women were finally able to represent themselves in

As background to this time we note the great progress emerged in the Second Industrial Revolution. During the Victorian period, England was characterised for cultural and political changes and began to develop a very important suffragist activity. It is important to define the terms suffragists and suffragettes because the latter were more radical and violent to differentiate themselves from the more moderate groups. This time in Europe, from 1905 to 1907 it was produced the revolution of the kingdom of Poland; and we can contextualize this speech just before the outbreak of the First World War, in which the suffragettes urged women to aid industrial production and encouraged young men to fight. Bolshevism also appears in Russia after the

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, women started to realize that they need to have their voice heard. They needed to start a movement towards gaining the right to vote, and making a difference in not only their lives, but the nation as a whole. The interest and determination to make a change in the government was so powerful that the Nation World Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association became monumental steps in the right direction. Susan B. Anthony led the National World Suffrage Association, while Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell started the American Women Suffrage Association. Women apart of these organizations were participating in speeches and parades in order to gain support and have the nation know that the women are here to fight for what they deserve. Eventually over time, the nation was becoming more and more aware of what was going on and although many did not

After the Civil War was a very exciting time for women. Suffragettes struggled to break free from the classification of fanatics, which led them to hone their message to include female voting rights exclusively. Activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution since it did not include women. As some saw the objection as racist, Lucy Stone formed the American Women Suffrage Association to do the same thing as the National Women Suffrage Association, just without the objection to the 15th Amendment (“Women’s Rights” 1). The movement was successful in winning the vote, and on August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. The 19th Amendment afforded all citizens regardless of sex the right to vote.

The women’s suffrage movement helped expand people’s mind and tried to prove to people that women were as knowledgeable as men. As a result, the women’s suffrage movement started to gain strength after the 15th Amendment. The Amendment stated that black males had the right to vote now, but still not women. “Women refused to support the Fifteenth Amendment if it excluded women.” (J. M. Palmisano 2001). Some women compared their inequalities to slavery by saying “I appeal to you men. If you were under such control of another man would you not consider it an absolute slavery?” (Credo, 2003). This made women of the movement want to strive harder to get their equal rights.

This movement was a crusade for women to gain equal right to vote and have the same respect as any other man was afforded. During this era many people felt that women had no business voting and should only be concerned with home issues, not political issues. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, and Lucy Stone lived during the turn of the progressive era and battled fervently for the rights of women. These pioneers of women’s rights laid the groundwork for additional reform and changed the very essence of our society. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Caddy Stanton founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869 and worked diligently (protesting and writing about equal rights for women) to push the right for women to vote and become equal to their male counterparts in a ray of different aspects. Susan B. Anthony even went as far as to get arrested for illegally voting. Unfortunately, the efforts of Anthony and Stanton were dismissed when the women’s suffrage amendment was shunned in 1887 by the senate (“National American”). After this terrible loss, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton did not bow out, instead they teamed up with another Women’s Suffrage organization called the American Women’s Suffrage Association. This organization was founded by Lucy Stone and had a more concise single goal: just gaining the right for women to vote. In 1890, these