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Susan B. Anthony once said, “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” in this quote, she was trying to get everyone to notice how different the rights were between men and women. She wanted that to change. Susan B. Anthony was not only a women's rights campaigner, but also, an Abolitionist, Suffragist, Author, Speaker, and the president of the Women Suffrage Association. In 1872 Susan B. Anthony took matters into her own hands and broke the law when she decided…
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com/cs/lives19th/a/blackstone_law.htm) Women were treated as their husband’s property without any legal rights. This general practice is still true in different parts of the world. Today, women still don’t have voting rights and are taken for granted in many parts of the world. In March 29, 2011, the head of the electoral committee of the Arab government said the kingdom was not ready to allow women to vote. “We are not ready for the participation of women in these municipal elections,” said…
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order to allow women to have the right to vote. There were many women who thought it was only fair if they had the same rights as men, but most were too scared to speak up about the situation. Susan B. Anthony was one of the few women who spoke out in favor of women's rights, thus becoming one of the most important women in the fight for women's suffrage. Susan B. Anthony was the child of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony, she was born on February 15th, 1820 in Adam Massachusetts. Anthony was number two…
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common knowledge that women were not allowed to vote. Although they were citizens of the United States of America, they did not have a choice in choosing who would lead their government. Therefore, this led to women all over the United States to advocate for their right to vote by doing things such as holding protests and giving speeches about why they should be able to vote. For example, Susan B. Anthony wrote the speech Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? and Emmeline Pankhurst…
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Successful American Women In the 1800’s many women strived for social and sexual mores, and struggled for the participation in the work force and political ground. Several of these women achieved success because of their determination and drive to spread their ideas. Such as Sojourner Truth and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who were both abolitionists. Stowe publicly expressed her thoughts and beliefs through her writings in a time where women could not speak publicly. Truth also did this by writing…
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on August 24, 1920 which grants women full suffrage. Women of the United States are now guaranteed the right to vote. The 19th Amendment states that, “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,” Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote when they first drafted and introduced to Congress the amendment in 1878. The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848 when women suffragists, led by Elizabeth…
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historians can note trends in opinion, arguments, perspectives, and sources. Lisa Tetrault, the author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, is an associate professor specializing in the history of gender, race, and American democracy. The central thesis of her book is to unpack and analyze the popular history, or myth, of the women’s suffrage movement. Tetrault argues that suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others created and popularized…
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A march of over 5,000 women down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. in 1913 calling for women to be given the right to vote. A month-long march in 1930, where dozens of Indians walked over 240 miles to collect a handful of salt from the Arabian Sea, protesting a British law that forbade the Indian people from collecting or selling salt. A single individual’s refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, an act that sparked protests over segregation laws in the Southern states…
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be someone of superiority. When Sojourner Truth had given her speech, a message of equality for both African-Americans and women, she was able to persuade many of the people at the lecture to see it from her perspective that every human being should have the right to be treated the same as everyone else. Speeches have a powerful ability to persuade others to believe in what the speaker is saying. Through many literary devices, this not only allows them to succeed…
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“If the first women God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, together women ought to be able to turn it right side up again.” -Sojourner Truth The Feminist Movement: A period of time when women fought long and hard battles for their rights and equality. Imagine for a moment, being a woman in this current day and time and not being free to cast a vote, work for a paycheck, play sports, attend school, or obtain leadership roles within your community. Therefore, because…
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