The Fight For Women's Suffrage

The suffragists had to face a series of challenges in their fight for equal rights. Wyoming was the first state that give women equal rights with men to vote in all elections by 1869 and 1870. Little by little, more states such as Montana, Washington, Nevada, and Oregon embrace women suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and other women leaders had to struggle to gain the right to vote in the same terms as men. Their efforts paid off, and finally by 1920, the Constitution ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution and then, “American women finally became the full political equals to men, eligible to vote in all local, state, and federal elections” (p 61). On Presidential Election of November 1920, for the first time women in all states exercised their right to vote.

Question 2 (From Reading pp. 67-72): What aspect of the "Freedom Summer" you found most significant? Why? …show more content…
The National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other associations worked really hard in their effort to register more black people to participate in the elections. However, the fight was not easy. Black people were arrested, sprayed with paint, pepper was thrown in their eyes, were beaten, and were attacked in many other violent ways. However, as our textbook states, “There is no denying the effect that Freedom Summer had on Mississippi’s blacks. In 1964, 6.7% of Mississippi’s voting age blacks were registered to vote. By 1969, the number had leaped to 66%” (p 71). At the end of the road, black people won the