2008 Democratic National Convention

In “Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)” Emma Lazarus’s writes in her sonnet “the New Colossus”, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” (Par. 1). Engraved within the Statue of Liberty, the icon of freedom, this sonnet defines the country of the United States. Even before its independence from Britain, the America was vastly recognized as the land of opportunity for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Emigrating by the thousands, many…

“Home Life” is a manuscript that was written in 1875 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is unknown where she wrote “Home Life” but it was mostly likely in New York because she was lived there her whole life. Elizabeth Stanton was a white woman, well educated, and an activist for women’s rights. Elizabeth’s characteristics will affect her perspective while writing. These characteristics will shape her perspectives because she is going to support women’s rights in her writings. In her writings, she…

The long road to women gaining their rights began on July 19,1848 when over 200 women gathered in Seneca Falls, N.Y. for the Seneca Falls Convention. This convention was a two-day event and over the period of the two days the Declaration of Sentiments was read, then on July 20, 1848, it was signed. This event was only the beginning of the movement towards the women’s suffrage movement. The next seventy-two years consisted of many battles, some won and some lost. Each battle, even the ones lost,…

Women as social and political activists, for example, appear in Faith Ro- gow's ''Gone to Another Meeting: The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893 1993''; Shelly Tenenbaum's ''Borrowers or Lenders Be: Jewish Immigrant Women's Credit Networks;'' Deborah Shultz's ''Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement''; and in two essays that were truly groundbreaking…

On the second day of the convention, the famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass and other men were invited to attend the event. The resolutions were all passed and signed after a drawn-out debate about the importance of female enfranchisement. With Frederick Douglass’s help, Stanton was able to get the votes needed to pass all 12 resolutions. The public ridiculed the subject of women having their right to vote so some withdrew their support in fear of being mocked or dismissed.…

Mandatory Journal Assignment #2 Biography Sojourner Truth was born around the 1797 in Ulster County, New York. Her story is one that shows not only character and commitment to the cause of feminism. The courage that she exhibited by breaking through the thick bonds of slavery and then fighting for abolition shows the extent to which Sojourner was an exceptional woman for the time that she lived in and also today. Sojourner Truth was originally born…

organizing movements. Women needed a culture change for equal pay and to end domestic violence. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention to deal with their conditions and rights. The Declaration of Sentiments became the most important document by identifying their right to vote. This attracted national attention and soon other conventions followed. The National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) was created and supported a constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage.…

decades. During that same year, along with Abbey Kelley Foster (1811-1887), and Paulina Wright Davis (1813-1876) she organized the Worcester Convention (1850) also known as the First Worcester…

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is a political text. This text was presented in the first women's rights convention of the United States, held in Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. During this convention, seventy women and thirty men gathered to discuss about the conditions of the rights of women in social, civil and religious life. At that time, the country was enjoying a period in which only free men (white, non-slaves) had the right to vote. In consequence, slaves,…

To begin, Stanton made her start in 1848 when she held the Seneca Falls convention with the help of Lucretia Mott. This convention was made a secret and it allowed women to speak up about their feelings towards equality and try to convince others to feel the same way (National Park Service “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”). Additionally, Stanton proved she was a leader when Susan B Anthony and herself established the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Stanton served as the president and when…