can say what they are really after; and what they are after‚ in common with all the rest of the struggling world‚ is freedom” (Eastman). The women’s rights movement had many women who fought for women’s rights‚ some of these women included Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and many more. These women worked extremely hard as activist for women’s rights. The fight lasted for many years‚ but they day finally came and women got the right to vote and now they could begin. History
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were “owned” by their fathers and husbands. As time passed and the country developed‚ women gradually gained rights otherwise not permitted to them before. But the battle to get this far was not easy. Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had to toil to and fight in what they believed in and in the end their effort did not go in vain. From the 1840s-1920s women fought for equality‚ from the 1930s- present women’s rights became reinforced‚ black women fought for equality‚ the pay
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Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton By: Kylie Fung Elizabeth Cady Stanton was both an abolitionist and a women’s right activist‚ feminist‚ editor‚ and writer. Her writing‚ Declaration of Sentiments‚ gave a revolutionary call to all women across the country. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12‚ 1815 in Johnstown‚ New York. After she graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832‚ she started to get interested in abolitionist‚ temperance‚ and women’s rights movements from
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came that they‚ too‚ were functioning in society without the complete freedom afforded to their male counterparts. Some of the women responsible for the revolution of the 1800’s included Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Frances Wright and Susan B. Anthony. Each had a certain plank in the platform of women’s rights that they wished to promote. The American Anti-Slavery Society began the fight to abolish slavery. It was headed by a woman named Lucretia Mott. Much like the Equal Rights Movement
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Anthony on the Revolution‚ an activist week by week paper. The two then shaped the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She was the president of this association until 1890. “Besides chronicling the history of the suffrage movement‚ Elizabeth Cady
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Coalition of Labor Union Women (1973). The force of the women’s rights movement‚ spearheaded by NOW‚ was brought to bear on the major issue of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. The ERA was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971 and by the Senate in 1972. On June 30‚ 1982‚ however‚ ratification of the ERA fell three states short of the 38 needed by that deadline. Later congressional efforts to reintroduce the measure have failed‚ although a number
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how this was not the case back then. A great women’s activist and the former of the women’s suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony worked hard to obtain women’s right to vote. She was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was raised in Quaker family that believed women’s were equal to men; and should be able to have the same rights even to education. In addition Susan B. Anthony had the opportunity to have an education do to because her father believe all his children should have an education
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maybe because he felt more powerful than her due to the fact that she is a woman‚ or that he is just always angry. Curley’s wife wanted to experience the American Dream to go out and work. For years white woman did not work‚ but stayed in the house and were house keepers. White woman wanted to experience the American dream‚ and were treated unequal for a long time until the 19th amendment passed. They went through tough obstacles like education‚ discrimination‚ and sexism. White woman faced many
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formation of the National Women Suffrage Association‚ and prominent women’s rights figure Susan B. Anthony. On July of 1848‚ a group of men and women meet in Seneca Falls‚ New York to discuss legal limitations placed on women. Of the people gathered was a woman of the name Susan B. Anthony who would spark and encourage women rights throughout the 1850-1920’s until the ratification of the 19th amendment. Anthony served to the women of the late 1800’s/early 1900’s as a figure of strength. She spoke
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the diary of a Schoolgirl This book is a diary written by a young girl named Caroline Cowles Richards. Carolina tells the reader about her life. How at a early age her and her sister Anna‚ lost their mother‚ were sent to their grandparents house in canandaigua‚ New York. They were brought up with simplicity‚ sweetness and Puritan traditions. The diary begins in 1852‚ and is continued until 1872. She recalls swift transitions throughout her life that the reader can recall events happening in
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