to run the government and take care of the women. Another tactic tried was getting under the women’s skin, like when it was said that “by keeping woman in her [rightful] position a man can be induced to do more for her and that having her mix up in political affairs will cause him to lose respect and regard for her” (Sanford, J.B.). The men and women who were against the movement stuck to their beliefs and looked down upon those who disagreed with them.
As women’s right to vote started to become a bigger deal, “in January of 1917 women started parading in front of the White House.” However this had consequences, “on August 28 of that year, 10 suffragists were arrested.” The women started off standing silently, holding picket signs that
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read, “‘Mr. President, what will you do for Woman Suffrage?’” and “‘How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?’” After about a half a year those who protested started to get arrested. The arrests became plentiful between, June and November 1917, during that time frame “218 protesters from 26 states were arrested and charged with "obstructing sidewalk traffic" outside the White House gates.” ("Ten Suffragists Arrested While Picketing at the White House."). Not only were the women who protested arrested, many who were opposed women’s suffrage looked down on them and shamed them for being apart of such a movement. The women who worked the hardest despite who disliked or shunned them became the most well known advocates. One of the most popular women’s suffrage advocates named Susan B.
Anthony was “born on Feb. 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts.” Being born into a political family she watched her parents work to end slavery in what was called the abolitionist movement. The Anthony family also took part in the “temperance movement, which wanted the amount of [alcohol consumption and sales] to decrease.” While campaigning against alcohol Anthony was inspired to fight for women’s rights. After being denied a chance to “speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman, Anthony realized that no one would take [any females] in politics seriously unless they had the right to vote.” After this realization she got to work and was “tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman’s right to vote.” She was so determined that in 1872 she illegally voted in the presidential election. She of course got arrested and ended up “being fined $100, a fine that she never paid.” Despite all of her efforts “when Anthony died on March 13, 1906, women still did not have the right to vote. However when suffrage for women did become legal “the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony’s portrait on one dollar coins in 1979, to recognize her dedication and hard work” (History.com Staff). Anthony had many supporters and followers but had one major …show more content…
partner. Another well known women’s rights advocate and partner of Susan B.
Anthony was “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in Johnstown, New York.” She was fortunate enough, unlike most girls in her time, to “received the best female education available at the time, at Emma Willard’s Academy.” One day while attending a social activity at her cousin, abolitionist Gerrit Smith’s house she fell in love with another abolitionist, Henry B. Stanton. Henry was an older, “romantic figure, who was part of the world of reform”, this made him all the more attractive to Elizabeth. Her father was absolutely opposed to her relationship with Stanton but “despite her father’s [disapproval], they married in 1840 and [chose to go] to London to attend the World’s Antislavery Convention for their honeymoon.” There Cady met “Lucretia Mott, the leading American female abolitionist, [who inspired her to] study the Anglo-American traditions of women’s rights.” After the honeymoon and some time being married “the Stantons moved to rural Seneca Falls, New York, in 1847 where she had the last three of their seven children.” Being tired of her social confinement she, with the “help of Mott, organized the world’s first women’s rights convention and insisted on including the
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That, however, didn’t stop the suffragists from protesting day after day. They held banners and “relentlessly attacked the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson for obstructing the extension of the vote to women” (The Women’s Rights Movement).... ... middle of paper ... ... 03 Dec. 2013.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, was known for her dedicated role as a women’s rights activist. At the peak of her career, she teamed up with Susan B. Anthony and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and also eventually brought about the passage of the 19th amendment, giving all American citizens the right to vote. But before all that, Stanton started out as an abolitionist, spending her time focused on abolishing slavery but then later becoming more interested in women’s suffrage. One of her most famous moments was
In order to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, legislators needed to know both sides of the suffrage argument. With anti-suffragists primarily communicating their message through subtle means such as plays, magazines, and dressing in specific colors, it’s no surprise that the radical, public demonstrations of suffragettes was more successful in raising awareness and bringing light to their cause.
Susan B. Anthony was indeed a strong, driven, and disciplined woman who had a great desire and passion to abolish slavery. Upon meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became immersed in the women's rights movement, dedicating her life to obtaining equal rights for all. Many men pursued Susan but she never married, she did not want to be "owned" by a man. Instead she chose to dedicate her entire life to this cause.
More than three hundred citizens came to take part in one of the most important documents written in women’s history during the Women’s Right’s Convention in upstate Seneca, New York, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott on July 19-20, 1848 (Ryder). Stanton became persistent when she included a resolution supporting voting rights for women in the document, intimidated by this notion her loyal husband threatened to boycott the convention. “Even Lucretia Mott warned her, ‘Why Lizzie, thee will make us ridiculous!’ ‘Lizzie,’ however, refused to yield” (Rynder). As Mott dreaded, out of eleven resolutions the most argumentative was the ninth–women’s suffrage resolution. The other 10 resolutions passed consistently. “According to Cady Stanton’s account, most who opposed this resolution did so because they believed it would compromise the others. She, however, remained adamant” (Rynder). When the two-day convention was over, one hundred men and women signed the historical the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments to...
During America's early history, women were denied some of the rights to well-being by men. For example, married women couldn't own property and had no legal claim to any money that they might earn, and women hadn't the right to vote. They were expected to focus on housework and motherhood, and didn't have to join politics. On the contrary, they didn't have to be interested in them. Then, in order to ratify this amendment they were prompted to a long and hard fight; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the 19th century, some generations of women's suffrage supporters lobbied to achieve what a lot of Americans needed: a radical change of the Constitution. The movement for women's rights began to organize after 1848 at the national level. In July of that year, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) and Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), along with Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and other activists organized the first convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls, New York. More than 300 people, mostly women but also some men, attended it. Then, they raised public awar...
After the success of antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century, activist women in the United States took another step toward claiming themselves a voice in politics. They were known as the suffragists. It took those women a lot of efforts and some decades to seek for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her essay “The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics,” Ellen Carol Dubois notes some hardships American suffragists faced in order to achieve the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Along with that essay, the film Iron-Jawed Angels somehow helps to paint a vivid image of the obstacles in the fight for women’s suffrage. In the essay “Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II,” Ruth Milkman highlights the segregation between men and women at works during wartime some decades after the success of women suffrage movement. Similarly, women in the Glamour Girls of 1943 were segregated by men that they could only do the jobs temporarily and would not able to go back to work once the war over. In other words, many American women did help to claim themselves a voice by voting and giving hands in World War II but they were not fully great enough to change the public eyes about women.
...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.”
Anthony was brought up as a Quaker in Adams, Massachusetts. Her strict upbringing and father’s passion of fighting against slavery led her to be a very strong and independent woman. Even though she was an average height and wore her hair neatly in a bun it didn’t mean she couldn’t fight for what was right. Anthony’s speech was full of advocacy, passion, and backed by a tremendous amount of support once word got around that someone was fighting for all women’s rights. What made her a powerful orator was her use of something that people could relate to and understand, for example the Constitution, or catering to women and their freedom. The timing of her arrest and speech gave way to an exceptional following of women and men across the country, which ca...
The fight for women’s rights began long before the Civil War, but the most prominent issue began after the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments joined the Constitution. The rights to all “citizens” of the United States identified all true “citizens” as men and therefore incited a revolution in civil rights for women (“The Fight for Women’s Suffrage”). The National Women’s Suffrage Convention of 1868
...zabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and died in 1902. While on a honeymoon, she met a young lady by the name of Lucretia Mott. Both were present at a World’s Anti-Slavery Convention, which Stanton’s husband was a delegate of. Stanton and Mott were infuriated with the rejection of women so they decided to enforce a women’s rights meeting. This meeting was considered a Women’s Rights convention and was held in Seneca Falls. This was the very first meeting and was located in New York. Stanton then composed “The Declaration of Sentiments.” The text proposed that women should receive the right education, and changes of the law to raise the status of a “lady.” Women who attended the very first convention agreed to sign the declaration. In that same of year, Stanton spread protests and appeals to the New York congress to pass acts related to the married women of New York.
While the women’s suffrage movement was none violent and mainly carried out by organized meetings, lobbying congressman, and picketing protests, the women that participated in it could do nothing to stop the violence of their oppressors from coming to them. In January 1917, the National Women’s Party, led by suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, began to picket, six days a week, in front of the white house for their right to vote. At first largely ignored, they became under frequent attack with no help from the police. Then starting th...
Susan B. Anthony who was a Quaker, was therefore opposed to the immorality slavery but also played a role in the movement calling for equality and rights of women. Anthony was inspired by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was also active in both movements, but very famous for her aggressive action in the Women's Movement, which can be shown by Document I. Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a very important role in The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. This convention also sought to expand democratic ideals, and more radically than perhaps any other event of any movement. They produced a declaration which stated that all men and women are created equal, and should therefore be treated equal. Stanton believed that women should be equally "represented in the government" and demanded for the right to vote.
This movement had great leaders who were willing to deal with the ridicule and the disrespect that came along with being a woman. At that time they were fighting for what they thought to be true and realistic. Some of the great women who were willing to deal with those things were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, Mary McClintock, and Martha C. Wright. These women gave this movement, its spark by conduction the first ever women 's right’s convention. This convention was held in a church in Seneca Falls in 1848. At this convection they expressed their problems with how they were treated, as being less than a man. These women offered solutions to the problem by drafting the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. They cleverly based the document after the Declaration of Independence. The opening line of their document was “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (Shi & Mayer 361). In this declaration they discuss the history of how women have been treated and how men have denied them rights, which go against everything they believe in. This convention was the spark that really
Susan B. Anthony was a big suffragist in her time, she traveled everywhere to give speeches and put together and organize things for the women’s suffrage movement. They wanted the right to vote for women, not just men, so they set up organizations to help this happen. She dedicated her life to setting up and conducting the suffrage movement. Jeanette Patrick said, “A skilled political strategist, Anthony was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and, after meeting Stanton in 1851, their partnership dominated the movement for over 50 years” (Patrick, Jeanette).