Susan Brownell Anthony was born in February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and died at the age of 86 in March 13, 1906 in Rochester, New York. Susan was a social reformer and feminist who played an important role in the women’s suffrage movement. She started collecting anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.…
The purpose of this book is to clearly inform people on the women’s suffrage women faced in the 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Also, to inform readers on why the convention happened and the events that led up to the convention. Cultural history is the tone as it focuses on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony contribution leading up to Seneca Falls Convention. McMillen thinks highly of the original tales about women’s rights and the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.…
She also supported the first Dower Act which allowed women the right to prevent the sale or mortgage of her home without her knowledge. Later on she was the first woman elected to sit as a member of a Legislative Assembly in the British Empire. Nellie McClung was a suffragette, reformer, journalist and writer. She was a leader in the fight to enfranchise women in North America. She was a big influence in the enfranchisement of woman in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. She then became a Liberal member of the Alberta legislature for Edmonton. Henrietta was a legal expert and an artist. In 1893 she helped establish the National Council of Women of Canada which improves the quality of life for women, families and society. She also published Canada’s first women magazine. Irene Parlby was an advocate for rural women in Alberta. She was elected to the Alberta legislature in 1921 and became the first female cabinet minister in Alberta. She improved the lives of women and children using her influence as a cabinet minister. They all came together to petition the ruling that women are not “qualified persons” in Section 24 of the BNA act. Eventually they succeeded…
Women are no different than men when it comes down to civil rights and voting! In the article “Womans Rights to the suffrage” Susan B. Anthony’s article was the most compelling because of the evidence and dictation. She is the women that allowed women to work not at home, allowed women to vote, and most importantly allowed women to be a citizen!…
During the 1860’s women were expected to not pursue education and become stay-at- home mothers and simply live their life to serve their families but Olympia Brown decided to go against these norms and on 1863, Olympia Brown became the first woman known to graduate theological school and to become that same year, the first woman to be ordained. Olympia Brown stood up for women’s rights by publishing her works into a society where they did not accept women rights.…
American Woman Suffrage- Association.The American Woman Suffrage Association was formed in November 1869. Its founders were Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe. The American Woman Suffrage Association founders were staunch abolitionists, and strongly supported securing the right to vote. They believed that the Fifteenth Amendment would be in danger of failing to pass in its Congress if it included the vote for women. On the other side of the split in the American Equal Rights Association, opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, were irreconcilables Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to secure women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. American Woman…
| Susan B. Anthony is the speaker; her reputation is being set by this speech. This speech could either ruin her chances at a great reputation, or transform her into a hero (which it did).…
Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Alice Paul the leader of the NWP and she lead the Women’s Suffrage Act. She was willing to die in order for the women to get the vote. The women used many methods to try to win the fight, they picketed in front of the white house at one point. Every day they would go out with flags and banners and stand at the gate. One day the police showed up accused them for obstructing traffic and arrested them. In the parade they had floats and banners, lines upon lines of women walking and protesting against the law. When the parade was almost over the crowd had come into the middle of it and attacked the women. This showed that they would rather die than live…
A Canadian who has made significant contributions to Canada is Nellie McClung. Over her lifetime she has improved the lives of many Canadians. She has made contributions by questioning typical women's roles, helped to gain the right for women to vote, and lastly, improved the rights and well-being for women all across Canada.…
Matilda Gage was a strong supporter of freedom. She was one of the leading figures in the women’s rights and suffrage movement during the mid-1800s. Gage was born on March 24, 1826 in Cicero, New York and was raised in a house dedicated to antislavery. ("Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation") The activist and free thinker Matilda Joslyn Gage is relevant in today's American culture because of her work in the abolitionist movement which led to the emancipation of slaves; her pioneering work to start the woman's suffrage movement with Susan B. Anthony that sought equal rights for woman; and her views on religion and how it influenced the women’s suffrage movement.…
One of the most important results of social policy movements in the United States was the ratification of the 19th Amendment securing a woman's right to vote in 1920. This law was hard-won and was instituted during a period (1905-1920), as Jansson notes (2011), when significant reforms for women, children, and workers were enacted in a relatively short amount of time. These reforms included guaranteeing better working environments for women, the implementation of child labor laws, and the institution of workmen's compensation (Jansson, 2011). Before these policy changes took place, labor conditions for workers during this period of rapid industrialization…
However, men were not the only ones that had fought for Canadians rights, the persons case is a momentous example on how women have contributed to how we live today. In 1917, the Alberta Supreme Court ruled that women were persons. Emily Murphy and four other prominent Alberta women's rights activists, now known as the Famous Five, signed a petition to the Senate. Although it didn't pass at first, by 1930 Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King appointed Cairine Wilson to the Canadian Senate. That goes to show that women can do as much impact as men can do, and they have also contributed to our history, some events not as obvious as this but they are the people behind the scenes.…
Being a woman at the beginning of the twentieth century was extremely difficult, so when Jeanette Rankin decided she actually wanted to contribute to her community it wasn’t such an easy journey. Rankin started her education young, attending a public school, which, eventually lead to her college degree in teaching. Rankin never loved school and thought that there was so much more to learn from experiences and her family. While Jeanette became a teacher, following in her mother’s footsteps, Rankin came to the conclusion that having never loved school she felt that teaching was not the path for her. During a visit with her brother Wellington at Harvard, Rankin found inspiration. Rankin fully realized the great divide between the rich and the poor and became devoted to…
In the 1920’s, Canadian women born before the year 1929 were considered to be “non-persons”. The word “persons” had always had a broader definition than how the law defines it. The word “person” is defined as a human being regarded as an individual. However, since women were considered to be “non-persons”, they were excluded from university degrees, the right to vote and working in certain professions. Five Canadian women; Mary Irene Parlby, Emily Murphy, Henrietta Edwards, Louise McKinny, and Nellie McClung, also known as the Famous Five, came together with the mindset to find a way improve attitudes and conditions towards women, and to ensure that women could participate in all aspects of life along with men. In 1927, they signed a petition…
Do you like having a voice? Do you like feeling empowered? Well, if it weren’t for Carrie Chapman Catt in the 1900’s, half of our population still wouldn’t have that luxury.…