Women's Oppressors The fight for women's right will always be an ongoing battle. People will always try to Oppress women but they are not going to let them. Susan Brownell Anthony is one of the most influential women in the world. She lived and breathed the fight for women's rights. At one point she even got arrested for fighting for women’s rights. She orchestrated the Women’s Suffrage movement with the help form Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Through her role of women's suffrage movement, Susan B Anthony has impacted the women's civil rights in America. Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Massachusetts. Susan grew up in a Quaker family. The Quakers are a group of Christians who use no scripture and believe in great simplicity
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The beginning of the women's suffrage movement started in 1848, traced back to “The Declaration of Sentiments”, which is the first convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y. They talked about the issue of women’s rights. Most of the people in a American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities (Social). “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” ( Social ). The women's right movement gathered heat, but lost it to the Civil War. When the Civil war was over Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw themselves at odds with many of their former allies. Most of them just wanted to win the right to vote. There efforts led them to the passing of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitutions. In the Amendments only the word male was used. Then the women thought that the word male would make it extremely harder for them to get the right to …show more content…
Without her who knows if women would even have the right to vote. Getting women's rights was one step at a time process. Women were still being treated not equally to men. There was still the idea that women need to stay home and take care of the house, but Susan got the ball rolling. Not until the 1940s did the idea of women being a stay home mom failed. Women started doing whatever they wanted to do. Women did not care what others thought about them, they just wanted to be able to think for themselves. Education got better for women overtime. More and more ladies where staying in school to become something bigger; like doctors lawyers and much
The beginning of the women's suffrage movement started in 1848, traced back to “The Declaration of Sentiments”, which is the first convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y. They talked about the issue of women’s rights. Most of the people in a American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities (Social). “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” ( Social ). The women's right movement gathered heat, but lost it to the Civil War. When the Civil war was over Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw themselves at odds with many of their former allies. Most of them just wanted to win the right to vote. There efforts led them to the passing of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitutions. In the Amendments only the word male was used. Then the women thought that the word male would make it extremely harder for them to get the right to …show more content…
Without her who knows if women would even have the right to vote. Getting women's rights was one step at a time process. Women were still being treated not equally to men. There was still the idea that women need to stay home and take care of the house, but Susan got the ball rolling. Not until the 1940s did the idea of women being a stay home mom failed. Women started doing whatever they wanted to do. Women did not care what others thought about them, they just wanted to be able to think for themselves. Education got better for women overtime. More and more ladies where staying in school to become something bigger; like doctors lawyers and much