We speak, but yet no one listens. Our voices are taken away by men and society where they believe we have no rights to speak. We are the woman in your home, who are tired of not being heard, it is time to make history. We the woman suffered over 70 years and until now we are being heard. Woman’s suffrage took many years to make a change, and finally in the 1920s the woman's voice was heard throughout the abolitionist, the National Woman's Party, and the 19th Amendment. But even with all the hard work it took to get to where we are today, that wasn’t enough. We will not stop until we are seen as equals, no matter about the race, color, or sex. Even if we have to wait another 70 years to make our goal, we will succeed. Even when we are not seen …show more content…
as equal to men, we have made if far from what it used to be back then. Susan B.
Anthony was only a part of a new beginning to make history for women’s rights. Anthony was an anti-slavery activist, she was well known and many people didn’t like what she did, so she made many enemies. She helped fight for women’s rights throughout her life. One of the ways she helped was by becoming the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was one of the leaders of the women’s right movement. “She helped organize the world’s first woman’s rights convention in 1848, and formed the National Woman’s Loyal League with Susan B, Anthony in 1863” (History). They worked together until the suffrage movement split in 1869, but that didn’t stop Anthony from going on campaigns to talk about women's rights. In 1869, Wyoming became the first state to giving women the right to vote. It was a big achievement for Anthony, but her goal was to get every women in every state to have the right to …show more content…
vote. “The origins of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) date from December 1912, when Alice Paul (1885-1977) and Lucy Burns (1879-1966) were appointed to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association’s (NAWSA) languishing congressional committee” (Origins overview). Paul came back to the United States after completing her PH.D. in 1912, she turned her attention to the American suffrage movement. Which was not doing so good since the death of Stanton and Anthony . The movement was laking focus and support under the conservative suffragist organisations who were only focusing in state suffrage. “On January 10, 1917 the CU and NWP instituted the practice of picketing the White House, the first political activist to do so” (Historical Overview). It went on for 2 months straight, the weather didn’t stop them from getting their point across. On June 22, 1917, police arrest woman for obstruct traffic, as the summer passed, they arrested more the sentence in jail got longer. Sometimes they were beaten in jail, also the where placed in unsanitary conditions. “Between 1870, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and 1920,when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for woman worked tirelessly, but their strategies varied” (19th Amendment).
The 19th amendment allows, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex” (Joint Resolution) Saying that if anyone was trying to not let any woman vote, then the law would be upon them. After so many years of lecture, marches, and different tactics many Americans thought of it as a radical change in the Constitution. Some of the suffrage woman, who gave so many years of their life to make the 19th amendment possible, where able to see it come true. The 19th Amendment was just a few months from making a world change for women. “On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, and 2 Weeks later, the Senate followed. When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the state's” (Joint Resolution). If it wasn’t for Tennessee vote, which tied it 48-48, then the woman’s suffrage wouldn't got the vote, because 12 states opposed the vote. On November 2, more than 8 million women around the U.S. voted for their first time. 60 years later the remaining of the 12 states ratified the amendment, Mississippi being the last state to do so, on March 22,
1984. Woman suffrage has given a voice to women, where we are finally being heard after so many years of hard work, using tactics, and many woman who believed they could do more. Even though women have advanced throughout the years in getting equal rights, there is still work to be done. Like women who work the same as men but still don't get equal pay. “ I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women” (Susan B. Anthony). For women to get equal rights as man, it would take many long years to achieve what the women in the past achieved. It would take many strategies , tactics, and planning new ideas. A woman should never give up on their woman's suffrage, because that would be the same as taking away their voice. What would the society be like if there was no Woman Suffrage? Would women try to make a change?
Susan Brownell Anthony, being an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, and organizer for woman suffrage, used her intellectual and confident mind to fight for parity. Anthony fought for women through campaigning for women’s rights as well as a suffragist for many around the nation. She had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of current law. Susan B. Anthony helped the abolitionists and fought for women’s rights to change the United States with her Quaker values and strong beliefs in equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton who is one of the famous women in the movement was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She received her formal education in her college and an informal legal education by her father. On her honeymoon in London, she and Lucretia Mott were angry at the exclusion of the woman. And then they decided to call a woman’s right convention. And for the next 50 years, she played a leadership in Suffrage movement, which is getting the movement to get the right to vote. She wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments.” It was calling for changes in law and society like educational, legal, political, social and economic. She elevated women's status, and demanded the right to vote. In 1851, she met Susan B. Anthony. She is also the woman who was active for a woman right to vote. They were fantastically influential in the 19th Amendment.
Anthony attended a women’s rights convention before she started campaigning for women’s rights (“Susan” Encyclopedia par. 2). Also before she started campaigning, Anthony worked at Canajoharie Academy in 1846. She taught there for two years. While she was there, Anthony campaigned that all colleges should open their doors to everybody, regardless of race or sex. Because of Anthony, women started attending
The 19th Amendment recognized the right of women to participate in politics equally like men. Well, do you know when it was ratified? It was on August 8th, 1920, which is really recent. After more than seventy years of relentless work, women finally won the struggle. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevents the United States federal government and the states from denying the right of citizens to vote on the basis of their sex. In other words, it guarantees the right to vote for all Americans including blacks and women. This amendment resulted in some impacts on American society. It also resulted in a significant change in American politics.
However in the mid 1800’s women began to fight for their rights, and in particular the right to vote. In July of 1848 the first women's rights conventions was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was tasked with drawing up the Declaration of Sentiments a declaration that would define and guide the meeting. Soon after men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments, this was the beginning of the fight for women’s rights. 1850 was the first annual National Women’s rights convention which continued to take place through to upcoming years and continued to grow each year eventually having a rate of 1000 people each convention. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the two leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement, in 1869 they formed the National Woman suffrage Association with it’s primary goal being to achieve voting by Congressional Amendment to the Constitution. Going ahead a few years, in 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in the nation election, nevertheless, she continued to fight for women’s rights the rest of her life. It wouldn’t be until 1920 till the 19th amendment would be
...re and an American hero she devoted her life to working towards equal rights for all women. Through writing, speaking, and campaigning, Anthony and her supporters brought about change in the United States government and gave women the important voice that they had always been denied. Any study of feminism or women’s history would be incomplete without learning about her. She fought for her beliefs for 50 years and led the way for women to be granted rights as citizens of their country, Thanks to Anthony’s persistence, several years after her death, in 1920 women were given the right by the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution. I do believe she was the key figure in women getting the right to vote. “She will forever stand alone and unapproached, her fame continually increasing as evolution lifts humanity into higher appreciation of justice and liberty.”
Nonetheless, this reform of women did not halt to the rejection, nor did they act in fear. The CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION states: “One of the main leaders of the women’s suffrage movement was Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906). Brought up in a Quaker family, she was raised to be independent and think for herself. She joined the abolitionist movement to end slavery. Through her abolitionist efforts, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851. Anthony had not attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but she quickly joined with Stanton to lead the fight for women’s suffrage in the United
The 19th amendment states that the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. The 19th Amendment was a significant turning point for many women in America. It gave women freedom that they didn’t have before. Before this amendment was passed, many women had no self portrayal, something they couldn’t reach with a male figure ruling next to them. That was until 1920, when the 19th amendment was passed.
the Nineteenth Amendment were signed into the Constitution, there granting women the rights to vote.
There were many women who fought for female equality, and many who didn’t care, but eventually the feminists won the vote. Women today are still fighting for equality in the home, in the workplace, and in society as a whole, which seems like it may take centuries of more slow progress to achieve.
Do you know how the 19th Amendment was formed? The Amendment was brought to congress over women suffrage. These women fought for their rights for 70 years. Finally getting the amendment ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment states that “the right of citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Women’s suffrage leads to the build up of the 19th Amendment.
Anthony is known as the mother of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Anthony became a woman’s suffrage leader, due to her limited ability to be involved in the anti-slavery movement. Because of her gender she could not speak publicly and felt she had the right to due so. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in a presidential election. At her trial she was found guilty and fined $100 fee that she renounced to pay. During her indictment, Anthony made the testimony that she indeed had committed no crime and was only exercising her citizen’s rights guaranteed to herself and all United States citizens by the U.S. Constitution. No state had the power to deny these rights (Susan B. Anthony - On Women's Right to Vote). This is a prime example of an American with the zealously and passion to make a change. Anthony continued to attend many conventions for both civil rights and women’s rights movement and an active activist. She died fourteen years before seeing women gain the right to
Susan B. Anthony is a figure in history known for fighting for women’s rights during the women’s suffrage movement. Her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked together to establish the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony gave speeches endlessly around the country (“Susan B. Anthony Biography” Biography) in an effort to convince people to allow a woman’s right to vote. A bold action she took was to illegally vote in Rochester, NY. She led a group of women to vote with her including three of her own sisters. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony wanted to be arrested for voting.
Social movements refer to informal groups of people who focus on either political or social issues. The goal of the social movement is to change things in society, to refuse to go along with the norm, and to undo a social change. For example, the Women’s Rights Movement that began in the 1840s was geared towards getting women more equality in relation to political, social, and economic status in society (Foner). Along with this, women gained a louder voice to speak out about what they wanted to change and implemented the change. Prior to the Women’s Rights Movement, women were often timid, compliant, obedient, and mistreated. After the 1920s, a movement towards more equality was shifted in society views, however not all were convinced or changed by the new ideas of women. Although women began to get increased rights, the typical gender roles, which they were expected to follow did not loosely lesson. Women still found themselves doing the same gender roles, house roles, and family roles even after the 1920s. It was not until the 1960s when the Feminist movement began (Foner). The literary piece is “Why I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady and the goal of the Feminist Movement was to create new meanings and realities for women in terms of education, empowerment, occupation, sexual identity, art, and societal roles. In short, the Feminist Movement was aimed to gain women freedom, equal opportunity and be in control over their own life.
Susan B. Anthony was an activist for the Women’s Rights Movement. As a child, she was raised to be independent and outspoken. As a leader, she did just that. She stood up for what she believed in. Anthony organized, traveled, and spoke to people about what needed to be modified for women. Her parents were Quakers, which is a branch of christianity. They believed that all men and women should study, work, and live as equals (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). She adopted these thoughts and became a leader of the movement for women. She recognized her passion for women’s rights and dedicated her life as a suffragette, an advocate of women’s right to vote (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). A meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton led to lifelong friends in political organizing for women’s rights and women’s