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Quaker family, which believed women are equal to men and learning is necessary. She could read and write at the age of three. At the age of six, their family moved to Battenville, New York. As a woman, Susan B. was not allowed speak in public at a convention since she was a woman and she realized that in politics, no one would take her seriously unless women could vote. This is when she…

Have you ever wondered how much our civil rights has changed over the years? And how women, and people with color are treated differently now? Lillian Wald has achieved many things to help contribute to our civil rights today. “Hero” is definitely the word to describe her. Wald provided great help to the civil rights movement, helped poor immigrants get back up onto their feet, and dedicated her time to children. Lillian proved herself as a hero by standing for civil rights. In 1903, she…

John Faucheraud Grimké, Mary Smith. Sarah and her sister were something special and courages, here are some of the things they accomplished.In 1837, Grimké and her sister made a prominent appearance at the Anti-Slavery Convention in New York for the firdt time . After the convention, they launched a public speaking tour in New England, during which they continued to express their abolitionist sentiment, this also gave other Women hope. Their audiences became increasingly diverse, and began to…

When the woman would start to farm, she would only be allowed to grow “womanly crops” such as cassava, plantains, and coco yams not men’s crop like yams. If she were to grow yams, her fields would be burned to rejuvenate the land from evil. The gender roles that take place in the Igbo culture, not only affect their agriculture but every other aspect of Igbo women’s lives. Igbo woman are subjected to abuse by their significant other, men are allowed to beat their wives regardless of the reason.…

that are very similar and have some differences are the Feminist Movement and LGBT Movement. The first beginnings of the Women’s Suffrage Movement of the United States were in 1848 and they held the first women’s rights convention. This convention was the Seneca Falls Convention and the organizers were Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott, their overall purpose was to move forward in women’s rights. They mainly argued that women had the constitutional right to vote and should be treated equal…

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,…

Scholars raised a host of questions about the political struggles over suffrage, social reform, and equal rights for both sexes, and they studied changing configurations of domesticity.1 At almost the same time, the field of American Jewish women's history emerged, marked by the appearance in 1976 of Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel's The Jewish Woman in America, and five years later by a special issue of American Jewish History entirely dedicated to women.2 Since that time there…

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.…