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    nothing less." (Susan B. Anthony). This quotation describes Anthony's attitude towards women's rights. Anthony helped the women all around the world by creating, innovating and illuminating. This woman's rights activist created the National Woman Suffrage Association, used Persisting and Striving for Accuracy to innovate ways to overcome a world without gender equality, and illuminated the world by helping give it a woman suffrage amendment. Susan Brownell Anthony created many…

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    The fight for women’s suffrage had been a long winded and grueling battle, but on August 26, 1920 women finally got the vote, 70 years after the Seneca Falls Convention, the Nineteenth Amendment stated, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex.” However, African American women were unfortunately still largely disenfranchised. Nonetheless, before women were enfranchised they undertook several political reforms such as birth control and…

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    the 14th(idk what this is), and the fifteenth amendment stating that race was no longer an issue but they disregarded the gender issue. In 1869 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman’s Suffrage…

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    though. Moreover, the 15th Amendment did not specify that women were excluded, so when some women, among those being Susan B. Anthony, tried to vote under the ambiguous wording, they were arrested. Furthermore, the major women figures, Stanton, Anthony, and Lucy Stone were split apart due to their differences of opinion on supporting the 14th and 15th Amendments. Stanton and Anthony separated and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) which supported enfranchising women, but…

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    Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was born in Moss Side, Manchester. In fact, it is her birth certificate, which states so; else she believed that she was born a day earlier on Bastille Day (The National Celebration) that had a special influence on her life. She was a British political activist, leader of the suffragette movement and was the major contributor in helping women to win the right to vote. She was born and brought up by her politically active parents in England. Out of ten children she…

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    During the first half of the twentieth century, the Colorado mountains became home to a handful of women who had fled the trappings of their former societies in hopes of refuge and adventure. One such woman was Virginia Donaghe McClurg, who became the first white woman to visit Mesa Verde and in later years would become immensely involved in the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who,…

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    fair if they had the same rights as men, but most were too scared to speak up about the situation. Susan B. Anthony was one of the few women who spoke out in favor of women 's rights, thus becoming one of the most important women in the fight for women 's suffrage. Susan B. Anthony was the child of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony, she was born on February 15th, 1820 in Adam Massachusetts. Anthony was number two of eight kids. Susan and her siblings were raised in a Quaker family who belonged to a…

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    SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony: Equality Starts With One Voice Women did not always have the right to vote. It wasn’t until a woman named Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women that the issue of women voting was ever truly thought about. On top of driving people to think about the rights of women, Anthony also drove people to consider the rights of African Americans and fought for temperance. Susan B. Anthony, as an evangelist, believed…

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    19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 (Cheyney 8). Throughout history many brave historical figures have stood up for freedom for all citizens in America. Among those many Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth all greatly impacted America by contributing to human rights. Susan B Anthony impacted human rights through her influential speeches…

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    Before the 19th Amendment in 1920, women couldn’t vote or do anything, especially the black woman. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist who wrote the famous poem “Aint I a Woman?”. On May of 1851 Sojourner delivered the speech at the Ohio Women's right convention. The reason for “Aint I a Woman?” was to get rights for women because woman couldn’t vote or where looked upon as weak and not smart. This poem was intended for head political powers as well as men in america…

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