Lucretia

liberties, it did not extend its ideas to all living in the United States. Years later in 1848, abolitionist and prominent figure in the women’s rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, created the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments with the help of Lucretia…

Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft raised the question in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” (Chap. III. Para. 34). She notes that women were taught to rely solely upon men for their livelihood, and to submit to their ideas, but she question is where it stops. In the 1700s, the education and social…

James A. Garfield: One of the Lost Presidents of the United States Not every president served an exact four or eight year presidential term. For example, Grover Cleveland served two consecutive four year terms. Franklin D. Roosevelt served three four year terms and died during the beginning of his fourth. William Henry Harrison only served a month. “James A. Garfield only served 200 days” (Freidel and Sidey).” That means that Garfield’s term was only about six months long. And yet, not every…

There have been many movements in the large span of America’s existence, but arguably three of the most impactful movements included the grassroots African American Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, and the grassroots Chicana/o Movement. These movements changed the way that America viewed the Constitution and Bill of Rights through different means such as peaceful and violent protests, forming activist groups, and fighting discrimination in court. By using different tactics, they each helped to…

Chapter 2, "Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers," from Eric Avila's "The Folklore of the Freeway" exposes the harsh impact of the highway on urban communities, highlighting experiences of women during the 1950s and 1960s. The construction of highways under the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act led to the displacement of many people from their homes and communities, which inflicted conflict and harsh discrimination against these predominantly minority groups. The viewpoint of women in this…

Introduction William Morris Davis was born on February 12, 1850. His father Edward M. Davis was a Philadelphia businessman with interests in railroads, mines, and the textile trade and his motherMaria (Mott) Davis was the daughter of Lucretia Mott, advocate of women’s rights and a strong opponent of slavery. Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Harvard. From 1870 to 1873 he worked in meteorological observatory in Argentina and then returned to Harvard to study…

The women’s movement goes so much further than treating a female as though she is no longer just a figment of someone’s sexual representation of her in one’s brain. To get to the point where we are in modern society has been a struggle. A struggle that so many strong men and women have worked towards; some never even getting the chance to see the fruit that had grown from the tree that they had planted. In present day, the definition of a women varies depending on who you talk to and what…

Suffrage means to have the right to vote in political elections. The concept was an ideal means for women throughout history, especially for women between late 1700’s and early 1900’s. Women suffrage had long been publicized to society since the 1700’s by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792 (Scholastics), and many other events or activities, led to the ratification of the 19th amendment. At the same time, the right for African Americans suffrage was also an approach. Through many generations of African…

The Continued Fight of Feminism in the 1930s-1950s: Housewives in Theory, Not in Action The period between what is thought of as the first and second waves of feminism popularly shows women as happy housewives, which might seem odd since suffrage was just granted and women should want to use their new political power to expand their roles, yet the expansion of women’s rights does not happen again until the 1960s. So what caused this change from a strong suffragette to a delicate housewife? To…

The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States pioneered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, attempting to gain equal rights, particularly the right to vote, eventually contributing to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The amendment was passed due to the female measures taken to gain small steps towards gender equality. These female measures were mainly taken by the National Women’s Party, who encouraged citizens to vote against…