Post Bellum Issues
Following the formal end of enslavement many issues emerged to the surface, including both lynching and women’s rights. Thankfully many people took stand for what they believe in and fought for the end and the rights of both lynching and women’s rights, including both Frances Harper and Ida B. Wells. Frances Harper being a women’s rights activist and Ida B. Wells being an activist who led a anti lynching crusade. Both women in which had heavily impacted the different issues and helped to raise awareness for both lynching and women’s rights and fighting for what they believed in. Frances Harper was an activist in the African American department of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, she shared her knowledge, dedication …show more content…
In her story, Woman’s Political Future, Frances Harper states “the world has need of all the spiritual aid that woman can give for the social advancement and moral development of the human race” (470). Meaning that the decisions and outcomes of the political world should not only lie in the hands of men but also in the hands of women. Not only did Frances Harper write this story explaining why she feels that women should have the right to vote she also had the opportunity to speak at an event. Harper was one of the four African American women to speak at the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian Exposition in 1893, where she shared the importance of women and the importance in their right to vote. Frances was one of the many women that stood up for what they believed in and because of their strength to fight and standing up for what many women believed in twenty-seven years later on June 4,1919 women were finally amended the privilege and freedom to …show more content…
Because of women like both Frances Harper and Susan B. Anthony they have made it possible for all women, no matter the race, to have the opportunity to voice their opinion and open many doors for women both in the time of post bellum slavery and present date. The United States of America is the way it is today because women have the same opportunity as men to partake in the action of determining the government and influencing situations taking place, “women, their rights, and nothing less”(Anthony, 1866). Following the formal end of enslavement not only did the issue of women’s right to vote arise but also anti lynching came into play. Lynching, or also known as killing, arose as a way for whites to take their anger out on the free African Americans. Ida B. Wells along with being a feminist who supposed the abolishment of women’s suffrage, she was also an activist who led an anti lynching crusade through the United States of American during the
Following the formal end of enslavement many issues emerged to the surface, including both lynching and women’s rights. Thankfully many people took stand for what they believe in and fought for the end and the rights of both lynching and women’s rights, including both Frances Harper and Ida B. Wells. Frances Harper being a women’s rights activist and Ida B. Wells being an activist who led a anti lynching crusade. Both women in which had heavily impacted the different issues and helped to raise awareness for both lynching and women’s rights and fighting for what they believed in. Frances Harper was an activist in the African American department of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, she shared her knowledge, dedication …show more content…
In her story, Woman’s Political Future, Frances Harper states “the world has need of all the spiritual aid that woman can give for the social advancement and moral development of the human race” (470). Meaning that the decisions and outcomes of the political world should not only lie in the hands of men but also in the hands of women. Not only did Frances Harper write this story explaining why she feels that women should have the right to vote she also had the opportunity to speak at an event. Harper was one of the four African American women to speak at the World’s Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian Exposition in 1893, where she shared the importance of women and the importance in their right to vote. Frances was one of the many women that stood up for what they believed in and because of their strength to fight and standing up for what many women believed in twenty-seven years later on June 4,1919 women were finally amended the privilege and freedom to …show more content…
Because of women like both Frances Harper and Susan B. Anthony they have made it possible for all women, no matter the race, to have the opportunity to voice their opinion and open many doors for women both in the time of post bellum slavery and present date. The United States of America is the way it is today because women have the same opportunity as men to partake in the action of determining the government and influencing situations taking place, “women, their rights, and nothing less”(Anthony, 1866). Following the formal end of enslavement not only did the issue of women’s right to vote arise but also anti lynching came into play. Lynching, or also known as killing, arose as a way for whites to take their anger out on the free African Americans. Ida B. Wells along with being a feminist who supposed the abolishment of women’s suffrage, she was also an activist who led an anti lynching crusade through the United States of American during the