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 women’s movement has been a long fought battle this assignment helps bring just how long it has been. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote “The Seneca Falls Declaration”. This document was much like the “Declaration of Independence” in which it listed multiple grievances against the government. This was the beginning of the movement and was slow going until 1966. In 1966 Betty Friedan wrote “The National Organization for Women’s Statement of Purpose”. These two documents hold a lot in common but when comparing the two you can see that in the years between them things have changed. This change may be small but is evident when compared. Some examples are in “The Seneca Falls Declaration” women in that time frame could not attend…
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, and Alice Paul all are household names, and the former has secured her place on the American silver dollar. Anthony is known for her role in the foundation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, an organization that she eventually became the second president of. Born in 1820, she grew up in a Quaker family, her ideals grounded in the belief that women, in all aspects, should be equal to men. In 1853, she joined a campaign to extend women’s property rights, but after the Civil War, she refused to support any amendments giving African-Americans the right to vote unless it also granted the vote to their women counterparts. A statue of her with fellow suffragettes Elizabeth…
In July of 1848 Elizabeth Stanton organized the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls. At the convention she had a man by the name of Douglas MaCarthur speak showing that the African American population were in support of the woman’s rights movement. This convention was the beginning of one of the biggest movements in American history. The movement started of slow due to many contributing factors. One, the start of the movement was at the beginning of the civil war,so people weren't really thinking about the unequal right woman had at the time due to the people fighting to give equal rights to the slaves.…
In 1869, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created a group called the “National Woman Suffrage Association”. Stanton and Anthony did not support the 15th amendment, and the two leaders believed women’s rights activists should fight for women to be included in the constitution before black males. Other women, such as Lucy Stone, found their views as unfair and supported the 15th amendment. She decided to create her own group, called the, “American Woman Suffrage Association” which had a more moderate approach. The American Woman Suffrage had more supporters, including men.…
Susan B. Anthony was a strong women’s rights activist and leader born into a quaker household on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Anthoney began to show great interest in social issues such as the anti-slavery conference in 1851 where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. While campaigning against the production of alcohol, Susan was denied a chance to speak at a temperature convention because she was a women. This form of discrimination opened her eyes to the issue of women's rights which changed everything. Together Anthony and Elizabeth Staton established the Women's New york State Temperature Society in 1852. Both Susan And Elizabeth became so close that they decided to form a committee for their society. To spread the word Susan…
Many women in the suffrage movement contributed to achieve women’s rights today, but some became leaders, being the driving force behind the revolution.…
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).…
Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, the same year that Henry Ward Beecher and Lucy Stone formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. Both groups fought for the right to vote until they merged in 1890 and became the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Susan B. Anthony was named president and began to lead the movement towards gaining the right to vote.…
Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were connectors and salesmen for the Women's Suffrage Movement because of their charismatic and sociable qualities to connect women to the movement. “In 1856 Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets”(Cosme). The quality of a connector with being outgoing and passionate brings an epidemic to be successful. The connections and dedication that Anthony brings to women’s rights brings the gradual growth to women’s suffrage. Anthony uses her skills of ambition and popularity to connect women who have similar view to work together. In 1863, Anthony and Stanton created a Women's National Loyal League to support and fight for the Nineteenth Amendment outlawing slavery (Cosme). Anthony and Stanton use the skills of a salesman to sell and provide the information to women and the government to give women more rights at the time. At the time Stanton had always advocated women's rights including “divorce law liberalization, and self-sovereignty” (Cosme). The connections that Staton created through women’s rights gave her the credibility to sell these ideas for Amendments to be formed. These two suffragist voices were heard because of their connections and sale tactics to prove to everyone that women deserved the ghit to vote. These factors bring the qualities that Stanton and Anthony used to become…
Susan was a woman full of conviction and she just wanted social equality for everyone. She took many steps, along with a good friend and fellow activist Elizabeth Stanton, towards the equal treatment of women. Susan B. Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in May of 1869. The group fought mostly for voting rights for…
Reform Movements Penitentiaries 1. John Howard was the leader of the penitentiary movement. 2. John Howard started the “Penitentiary Movement” because he had concerns for the jailers since they were beginning to see more and more deaths from the prisoners. Howard’s actions were caused due to the diseases that were intensified by the conditions of the prisoners’ incarcerations.…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was motivated by the need for women’s equality within the antislavery organization she was supporting during the Civil War. Stanton projected the idea of the women’s right in the convention placed in Seneca Falls, New York, “The laws of our country, how unjust they are! Our customs, how vicious!” Stanton’s suggestion was The Declarations of Sentiments to be based off the Declaration of Independence as a model to express the ideas eloquently. The year of 1851, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony who collaborated ideas to recruit women in the involvement of the movement and educating women about the surrounding issues beside the war. The collaboration of the two women led to the formation of National Woman Suffrage Association…
The Women’s Loyal National League was formed by Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton in 1863. This organization was the first national political organization in the U.S. for women (Harper). By cofounding the Women’s Loyal National League, Anthony created a network of approximately 5000 members, and promoted women’s political participation (Barry). Anthony was also a president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, an organization that played an important role in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (Votes for Women).…