have equal rights and opportunities (“Feminism”). Throughout history‚ women strived for rights that men had but women did not acquire such as the right to education‚ voting‚ equal pay‚ abortion‚ and divorce. Major‚ influential feminists include Susan B. Anthony‚ a well known suffragist who fought for the right to vote; Hillary Clinton‚ the Secretary of State and presidential candidate for the 2016 election; Malala Yousafzai‚ a Pakistani activist for women’s education‚ and many more. The Feminist Movement
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Anthony was one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage. “Testing another strategy‚ Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election in Rochester‚ NY. As planned‚ she was arrested for "knowingly‚ wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States‚" convicted
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rights‚ and nothing more; women‚ their rights‚ and nothing less.” (Teen Ink) Finally‚ 14 years after Susan B. Anthony died‚ women are finally able to vote (bio.com)! Everything she worked so hard for has finally paid off! Susan Brownwell Anthony was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts (Susan B. Anthony House; Encyclopedia of World Biography). Her parents‚ Lucy Anthony and Daniel Anthony had seven children (Teen Ink). Her family has always been politically active and were both quakers
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Anthony born in Adams‚ Massachusetts on February 15‚ 1820 who was raised up in a Quaker family with a history of activism. At an early age Susan developed a deep sense moral conviction and justice. Susan B Anthony was a teacher for 15 years before becoming involved in the abolition of alcohol also known as the temperance movement. Due to the fact that Susan was a woman she was unable to speak in public settings leading her to be
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men and women are not in the same social hierarchy. A woman is capable of doing the exact same thing a man does‚ it has been proven; yet men feel that they are superior. All of these women who have fought for equality: Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Alice Paul‚ and many others are the reason I am able to go to school and get the same education as a male. They went through so much suffering so that future generation would have a better life than they did. It took years for people to actually
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In the first half of the 19th century‚ even though a few women such as Susan B. Anthony started social reform activities‚ majority of women were restricted by a strict female virtue consensus. Most of them were recognized as domestic workers with their legal rights largely incorporated into the men’s in their families. Before the 1860s‚ many middle-class white women received education‚ but mostly were only enough for child nurturing. Rarely would a woman attain equal education as men; however‚ she
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After reading these speeches and articles; the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln ; Woman’s Right to the Suffrage by Susan B. Anthony‚ the I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and On the Death of Martin Luther King Jr by President Robert F. Kennedy. I thought that the Woman’s Right to the Suffrage speech by Susan B. Anthony was the most compelling to me. It’s truly amazing to see how much the rights have changed for women from 1872 to 2016. It does appear that women have
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beginning. Starting from their different roles in society to stereotypical roles in the workplace as well as the home. Susan B. Anthony played a large role in the first women’s right’s movement that took place in the late 1800’s. The visual above took place in 1920’s. Three women apart of the National Women’s Party picketed the Republican Convention for its refusal to support the Susan B. Anthony Amendment‚ which was the Women’s Suffrage Amendment that supported women’s right to vote. It was not until 1919
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History Susan B. Anthony stated‚ “It was we‚ the people; not we‚ the white male citizens; nor yet we‚ the male citizens; but we‚ the whole people‚ who formed the Union.” The first proposed equal right Amendment entered the Congressional session in the year of 1923. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King spoke in 1963 at a march on Washington about a dream. Reverend King articulates on “the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence promising that all men would be guaranteed
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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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