Samantha Hood
Mrs. Tapp
American History, P2
03 November 2016
Antoinette Brown Blackwell Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a very influential reformer in the 1800s. She was involved in many reform movements such as education, women’s rights, temperance, and slavery. Growing up in a very religious home, Religion influenced Blackwell’s position as a reformer. Advocating for the suffrage movement, Blackwell felt obligated to build up her authority in public. Education was very significant to Blackwell. She attempted to make education very important in everyone’s lives. At the time, there were not many institutions at a superior learning level for women. The only one was Oberlin College, and Blackwell attended in 1846. She also was a key character in advocating women’s rights. At Oberlin College, they had very harsh rules. A couple of the rules stated that women could not walk with men and prohibited them from speaking publicly. Blackwell and a friend were not pleased at all with this, so they made a debating group in private and it therefore became the first club for college women. Driven to become a minister, She kept on trying to achieve her dream no matter what she knew she was going to have to face along the way. After her achievement of becoming a minister, Blackwell became known as one of the founding…show more content… "Hearing women speak: Antoinette Brown Blackwell and the dilemma of authority." Journal of Women's History, vol. 10, no. 1, 1998, p. 108+. World History in Context, ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/AcademicJournalsDetailsPage/AcademicJournalsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=Journals&currPage=&scanId=&query=&prodId=WHIC&search_within_results=&p=WHIC&mode=view&catId=&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CA20779587&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=&source=Bookmark&u=sou156&jsid=30ee4e1884b0ccc7ff28cfc3c288657a. Accessed 8 Nov.
