Anthony Howard

Christian women joined the women right movement. Lucretia, Mott Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the three main women that started the Women Suffrage in America. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first convention that illustrated the women’s rights. The main intention of the convention was to have a guaranteed amendment that allowed women to vote. Women wanted the right to vote to feel part of the nation. Susan B. Anthony declared the “Declaration of Rights for Women at the…

The Progressive Era was a time in United States history when big changes were beginning to occur all over. Major campaigns began that focused on reforms such as temperance, abolition, women 's rights, and asylum and prison reformation. Because of great pioneers that took the time to make a difference, our country is so much better and stronger. What is reform? Reform is to make changes in something in order to improve it. Every individual that was involved in the reformation era had one thing in…

The legacy of Susan B. Anthony lies as the feminist icon,that made an impact in our daily lives. In a time of where male dominance took place the main concentration on women suffrage to the discrimination of women, Susan B. Anthony’s feminist movement opened up equal opportunities. She contributed to the society as the founder of National Woman Suffrage Association, co-established the women’s right journal: The Revolution, organized the Women’s Loyal National League, was the president of the…

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less”-Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony was a very influential woman in history. She made a huge difference on women equality. She believed that women deserved every right that was given to male citizens, including the right to an education. She also believed that women should not get paid any less than men. Susan B. Anthony was all for women and their rights. She risked so many things in her life to make sure her goal was…

Susan B. Anthony was an avid fighter for the rights of women during a time period where she could have been ridiculed for this. During Miss Anthony 's speech “The Power of the Ballot” she said, “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.” To end her speech, Susan used that quote to challenge the social ideas of the audience that women are people. This was not the only speech in which she challenged…

Susan B. Anthony’s quote referencing “men, their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less.” means that women and men should be treated equally. “Modeled after the Declaration of Independence and written primarily by Stanton, the declaration demanded that women be awarded the same rights that were guaranteed to men under the U.S. Constitution.” which should have been already been granted. “ the declaration argued that women should be granted equally with men in all areas…

Growing up in a world where there is so much pressure to be successful, numerous people are frightened of being ostracized for being themselves. As a young child, completely care free, opinions of others or how they might look at me never crossed my mind. But the older we get, conforming to the rules became the norm, a drastic change occurred as a yearning for acceptance grew. In the articles by Bordo, Appiah and Foucault, readers can see a range of views presented as they elaborate further into…

In the time that Alice Hoffman set the book The Museum of Extraordinary Things, women were struggling with the fact that they had no rights. During the time 1911 to 1920, women were like lambs to the slaughter because they were treated like delicate creatures that needed to be protected by a strong man from other evil men. Women had no goals or ambitions because they were living in patriarchal society. Before women had rights, they lived in a world that was not their own. During 1911, they…

The Suffrage - Word vs. Violence “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” This simple line written by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A vindication of the rights of Woman (1758) produce a sentiment that many today takes for granted; The right for a woman to have power over herself, to live her own life and to vote. The sadness in this remark is that it would take another 160 years before all women in Britain over the age of 30 with the minimum property…

A fourth progressive that had a lasting impact was Mother Jones. She was born in Ireland and was known for coordinating many strikes and marches, the most well-known being the children’s march, the goal of which was to get child labor laws. During this march, Mother Jones walked with children who were working in the mills from Philadelphia to New York to see President Theodore Roosevelt. The President stays out of town during the march, however, as a result of this march, child labor laws…