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    1920 women couldn’t vote. The issue wasn’t well-known until 1850 when the National Women’s Rights Convention was formed. After that, the issue was recognized and more groups like this were popping up. More women realized that this was an issue and fought to make it legal for women to vote. Susan B. Anthony was perhaps the most well-known women’s rights activists. After the Civil War ended, Anthony refused to support any suffrage amendments to the Constitution unless the changes included women as equals

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    many women who contributed to the woman suffrage and Susan B Anthony is one of them and her contribution to the woman rights is huge. She worked internationally for women’s right and she is also playing the major role in creating the international council of women. Her works is unforgettable and she is widely recognized and she became the first actual woman whose picture appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. If Susan B Anthony were alive today she would proud of the 21th century because women are no

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    government which represents that woman should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.” said by Lucy Burns, because she believed that all women should be able to vote and have their opinion in the world. Lucy Burns impacted the citizens of the United States of America because of the National Woman's Party, joined Alice Paul on the Congressional Committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and edited the Suffragist. Lucy Burns was born on July 28, 1879

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    Alice Paul was one of the most necessary factors in the equation for Women's Suffrage. Her bold tactics revitalized the suffragists movement and allowed for her to achieve her long term goals. She is the most important person of this time period because she never compromises her beliefs in the face of adversity. From a young age she was taught that she deserved unconditional equal rights. This is a radical notion that will drive her work throughout the rest of her life. She underwent arrests, forced

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    Women are often overlooked in history, partly because they were chained in social expectations and had limited rights. Throughout the history of the United States, many groups of people have faced discrimination far greater than the circumstances faced by most women. However, the struggles of these fair-skinned and African American women should not be portrayed as less than what they were. In 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, delivered

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    no place in politics and were often discriminated. A movement named Women's suffrage had a big part in women getting the right to vote. In the United States, it was known as Woman's National League founded by Elizabeth Cady and Susan B. Anthony. Many men were apart of this movement, even making their own movement called Men's Leagues for Woman Suffrage roughly 20,000 members. Another one, National American Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) lead by Carrie Chapman Catt, helped start campaigns in

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    Katrina Anderson October 17th, 2016 Margaret Finnegan, Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999) The Duality of Consumer Culture During the Progressive Era The diligent examination of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the approval and eventual signing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 uncovers the not so subtle partnership of consumer capitalistic culture and the non-radical woman suffrage movement. Consumer capitalism refers to a mode of capitalistic

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    William Croswell Doane’s article “Some Later Aspects of Woman Suffrage,” discusses how woman’s rights came to be as well as the author’s opinion on the subject. In August of 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified allowing woman the right to vote. This article was published in 1896 before ratification but during the suffrage movement. The article brings up the point that nobody, at least in the anti-suffragist group, that the question would be brought into the Presidential election, but a woman named

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    Women, like black slaves, were treated unequally from the male before the nineteenth century. The role of the women played the part of their description, physically and emotionally weak, which during this time period all women did was took care of their household and husband, and followed their orders. Women were classified as the “weaker sex” or below the standards of men in the early part of the century. Soon after the decades unfolded, women gradually surfaced to breathe the air of freedom and

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    Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), whose members were known as Suffragists. The Suffragettes are famous, or rather infamous, for their use of violence. Their motto was, after all, ‘Deeds not Words’. Historians still argue today as to how successful they were in their own right, whether it was inevitable for women to get the vote, and, if so, how much of a contribution the Suffragettes really made. Many argue that it was womens’ effort in the First World War that made the most difference to women obtaining

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