American suffragists

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…

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social equality. One of the major goals of the American Civil Rights movement was to give all people, regardless of race, equal rights. In the United States, civil rights are supposed to be for all people. Throughout history, people have had to fight for their rights when others tried to deny them. Today, all people enjoy the benefits of civil rights advocates. Susan B. Anthony changed the course of history. Without Susan B. Anthony,…

Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Print. Thesis: Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life. Substantive Questions: 1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without the…

Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women’s right advocate, journalist and speaker. She was a women rights advocate, she fought for women’s right because she didn’t like the way she was being treated. When she was a school teacher she was fired because they told her she was to voice full. Also one day when she was on a train she paid for a first class ticket in the women’s section of the train, and they wanted to give her seat to a white women, so they wanted her to move to…

The American Dream is a window of opportunity to improve and grow an individual lives from equal opportunity, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness. The American Dream has been around for many decades but was evolved through each decade. This term has always driven people to be better and earn more. The idea is that an individual can become something big, something important. An individual will gain this American Dream through equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard…

1900’s. The main injustice was having the right to vote. For Blacks voting was essential towards the progress for better treatment and better quality of live. The right was not a right if a person was black at this time. So many people like black suffragists rallied together to stand up for was right. During this time being black was difficult due the fact that there were limited resources available to blacks at this time. Most landowners were white and were not paying very much, if at all for…

Maria W. Stewart advocates for the education of African-American women, Mary Church Terrell’s “The Progress of Colored Women”, and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good” show the increasing amount of equality and opportunities black women in the United States obtained and the United States’ progressing tolerance for them. Maria W. Stewart, born as a free black woman, delivered a speech to the African American Female Intelligence Society,…

“Everything is bicycle.” Stephen Crane was an unusual man. From his large, unruly moustache to his uncommonly formatted poetry, he didn't shape his life based on the expectations of society. He stood out, pursued his passions, and shaped both history and American literature as we know it! During the late 1800’s, when Crane's writing career was at its peak, most readers were looking for heroic stories full of natures beauty and unlikely heroes to come save the day. Luckily for his career, Crane…

pro-abolition education, and this education laid the foundation for Harper’s preeminent cognitive reasoning. Harper’s home was a primary stop for slaves escaping to Canada by means of the Underground Railroad. She is regarded as the first African American to have a short story published; however, as Dr. Derrick Spires suggests, “Harper was primarily known for her poems during that time.” In fact, due to her poetic popularity, she was able to travel across the south, after the civil…