Biography of Lydia Becker
Lydia Becker the daughter of Hannibal Becker and Mary Duncuft, was
born in 1827. The eldest of fifteen children, Lydia, like the rest of
her sisters, was educated at home. After the death of her mother in
1855, Lydia had the responsibility of looking after her younger
brothers and sisters
She took up interests in Botany and Astronomy, winning an award in
1864 for her collection of dried plants. Lydia was a keen writer and
was an active member of Manchester's Ladies Literacy Society.
It Starts…
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In 1886 her first book was published and she attended a local meeting
organised by the National Association for the promotion of Social
Science it was here, in Manchester, that she heard Barbara Bodichon
reading a paper 'Reasons for the enfranchisement of Women'.
“There was no reason why the single ladies and widows…” she heard,
“should not form as sensible opinions on the merits of candidates' as
male voters” She was immediately converted to the idea that women
should have the vote and wrote an article “Female Suffrage” for the
magazine, “The Contemporary Review”. Emily Davies and Elizabeth
Wolstenholme were two of the women who read the article and later that
year they joined with Lydia Becker to form the Manchester Women's
Suffrage Committee.
Becker continued to write articles about the need for parliamentary
reform and in 1870 she established the Women's Suffrage Journal.
Becker was also involved in other feminist campaigns. In 1868 she
became treasurer of the Married Women's Property Act and also joined
Josephine Butler in her campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts.
The Campaigner
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Lydia now had a goal in life, in a more restrained way than the
radical suffragettes who came to the notice of the public in the early
20th Century.
In 1867 the name of Lily Maxwell appeared by accident on the electoral
roll in Manchester. Lily was a widow who ran her own small business
paying rates, and was just what Lydia was looking for a test case.
Margaret Garner, an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America, was born on June 4, 1834, at Maplewood plantation in Boone County, Ky. Her parents were slaves belonging to the
Margaret Brent stands out in the beginning of American history for her daring and self-determination. She never married but that did not keep stop her from flourishing in a world ruled by men. Instead, she became a successful businesswoman, trading land and servants, and earned the respect of Governor Leonard Calvert, who entrusted her with managing his estate upon his death. (Witkowski) While these achievements were both unusual and significant, Margaret is best known for being the first woman in America to request the right to vote.
Sara Borkholder’s life is certainly dedicated to helping others. While her recent day jobs have included a stint at Yellow Creek Daycare in Goshen and working at the local hospital there as well. While both of these positions are commendable, what is more shocking is her dedication to public service outside of working hours. Starting about three years ago with certification training at Ivy Tech, Sara became an EMT, an Emergency Medical Technician working on a volunteer basis for Nappanee’s Emergency Medical Services. While the position is volunteer in nature, Sara is still sometimes asked to remain on call for stints that last twenty-four straight hours.
During the 1900’s, women were under the idea of the cult of domesticity. This meant that women’s place was in the home. They had jobs such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children. In the article “Why Women should Vote,” it is clear to see that Addams was biased and believed that women deserve the right to vote. She wrote an article saying why women should vote and why it was the responsibility of women to vote. Many women around the country felt oppressed. Different groups started to form as they fought for women’s rights.
Edna Ferber's childhood and career influences many of her works. She was born in 1885 and died in 1968. Growing up, she was taunted for being Jewish. Her family moved a great deal, so she was able to see a lot of the country. She eventually landed a job as a reporter, but faced a lot of criticism at the workplace for being a woman. When asked about her role model, Edna Ferber said, "My mother is of the iron age when things were not handed to people on velvet pads of ease-She had a zest for life and the ability to impart it on others. Her belief in the eternity of life has a nourishing effect on her and all those who come in contact with her. She is a wonderful woman" (Shapiro 15). Because of this, she bases most of her heroines on her mother. In fact, Edna Ferber based nearly all her novels, plays, and short stories on her own life as a Jewish woman reporter in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Lucy Knox had a very hard time conquering both fears by worrying about her husband and the soldiers.But, her job is to be a hero and help the soldiers that need helped.Also, it’s a risk to do what she did because she could of got hurt or killed during the war.Not even to mention she left her kids to help and be with soldiers and Mr.Knox.
Kayla was just an average 14 year old playing in a soccer tournament. She fell a couple of times, once on her tailbone and another on her neck ("Kayla Montgomery"). There was a tingling sensation running up and down her spine, and she lost feeling from the waist down ("Kayla Montgomery"). Shortly after her fifteenth birthday, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, or MS for short ("Kayla Montgomery"). Her disease hasn’t progressed from the time she was diagnosed to now, so she is still able to do the things she loves including running. Kayla was determined to push herself to achieve her goals. Before Montgomery was diagnosed, she wasn’t a fast runner at all, but she soon rose to the top ("Kayla Montgomery"). Kayla became the fastest long distance runner and also the track and field team captain at Mount Tabor High School ("Kayla Montgomery"). She started to train with the boy’s team her sophomore year because the girls on her team weren’t enough competition (Polachek, Emily). Kayla became the 21st fastest 3200 meter runner in the country at North Carolina’s state track meet her senior year ("Kayla Montgomery").
Interior Decorators such as Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy Draper helped to pave the way for the Interior Design profession today. Their influential decisions to stray away from the Victorian style of design helped guide both the interior decorating profession, as well as architects who no longer wanted to design in the bulky and cluttered Victorian Style.
Subsequently, we now have Alice Paul during the Progressive Era who was a women’s rights activist, introduced more combative techniques to the women's suffrage movement to aid a rewarding campaign. Paul saw no improvement and became eager with how passive everything was taking place so she got western women voters to start up the National Women's Party. Eventually, influential women like Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt have fought for the rights of women to be independent from men and pursue any position that they may choose. For example, Sojourner Truth, who abolitionist that supported women rights at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and is one of the biggest declarations
... the poor and sick when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (Tucker). (WC-827)
Anthony spent her life fighting for women and African American rights. In 1848, the first women’s rights convention was organized. She and Elizabeth Stanton contributed majorly in setting it up in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1852, Anthony then went to a Sons of Temperance meeting in Albany, New York. When she tried to discuss an issue, she was told that the women who are attending were not allowed to speak She later formed the Women’s New York State Temperance Society out of spite (“Anthony, Susan B.”). Anthony believed in coeducation or teaching different genders together. Therefore, in 1859, she spoke at a teacher’s convention in Troy, New York. She argued that no matter the gender or race, everyone’s mind was the same and they all should have the opportunity of an education (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). After that, Anthony traveled to almost all of the 60 counties in New York, in order to compile a list of signatures to persuade the court to give married women rights. However, when the court failed to respond she continued to reappear with new petitions for five strenuous years. Finally, in 1860, the legislature of New York gave married women property and guardian rights (Bilhartz). In 1863, The Women’s National Loyal League was created by Anthony and Stanton in order to petition for the thirteenth amendment to outlaw slavery. Their mission was to have citizenship and suffrage granted to every human being, but were frustrated when women were rejected (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). Shortly after, the Fifteenth amendment was approved on February 3, 1870, which gave all “citizens” the right to vote. This amendment did not specify that women were not allowed to vote. So in 1872, Anthony went to a barber shop in Rochester with her three sisters and persuaded an
A women suffrage amendment was brought to the U.S. Congress in 1868 but failed to win support as well as a second amendment in 1878. In 1869 a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton got together with Susan B. Anthony, a women’s rights activist, and organized an association called the National Woman Suffrage Association. With this union they would gather with women and fight for women’s suffrage. Later, in 1890 they joined with their competitor the American Women Suffrage Association and became the National American Women Suffrage Association. “NAWSA adopted a moderate approach to female suffrage, eschewing some of the more radical feminism of other women’s rights groups in favor of a national plan designed to gain widespread support” (3). What the association did was they changed their initial tactic towards suffrage for women so that they can be able to obtain support from all over. Having little to no movement on the national front, suffragists took the next step to sate level. That was when Eastern states granted women suffrage, but hadn’t spread to Western states.
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves” – Mary Wollstonecraft. In the 19th century the hot topic was women’s rights everybody had an opinion about it. Of course the expected ones like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had much to say but a few unexpected ones like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass spoke out for women’s rights. The focus will be the responsibilities and roles that the activists played in the Women’s Rights or Feminist Movement. The relevance to the theme is the activists had a very important role toward reaching the ultimate goal of the Women’s Rights Movement. The Women’s Rights Movement was one of the most essential times in American history; it was the fight for women acquiring the same rights as men. Susan B. Anthony was considered the leader of the Women’s Rights Movement after she was denied the right to speak in a temperance convention; she had the responsibility of creating the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) and helping to secure voting rights by her historic court case, the Trials of Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important women’s rights activist that helped plan the first organized women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. Lucretia Mott worked along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to plan the first women’s rights convention and wrote the, “Discourse on Women”. Lucy Stone formed the American Women’s Suffrage Association (AWSA) and convince individual states to join the effort towards women rights. These women had an influence in the National American Women’s Suffrage Association’s (NAWSA) achievement of the goals in the Women’s Rights Movement. These women had a profound effect on reaching equal rights between men and women.
Although they were fighting for a worthy cause, many did not agree with these women’s radical views. These conservative thinkers caused a great road-block on the way to enfranchisement. Most of them were men, who were set in their thoughts about women’s roles, who couldn’t understand why a woman would deserve to vote, let alone want to vote. But there were also many women who were not concerned with their fundamental right to vote. Because some women were indifferent in regards to suffrage, they set back those who were working towards the greater good of the nation. However, the suffragettes were able to overcome these obstacles by altering their tactics, while still maintaining their objective.
Throughout kindergarten to fifth grade I really do not have many memories of science in class. This may be from me simply not remembering, but I believe it is due to the incredible integration of my elementary school. There were no certain blocks of time dedicated to certain subject, all the subjects fed off each other and were more a cohesive gaining of knowledge of all subjects rather than focusing on one. In my current schooling I have learned how hard it can be to integrate all the subjects together, but my elementary school did it seamlessly which is a goal I will constantly be striving for.