National Convention

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…

“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”: A Stance on Suffrage The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is marked as the official start of the suffrage movement in the United States. In a chapel holding roughly two hundred women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes a stance with her speech “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution” (Burns). Stanton makes bold statements in this piece about inequality and the oppressment of women by a government where men solely held office and calls for radical change.…

rights women have today. Even though she had always been aware of the mistreatment of women during her time, it was probably the exclusion from the World’s Antislavery Convention that may have encouraged her to start protesting for women’s rights. In July 1848, with several other women, Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention. At this meeting, the “Declaration of Sentiments” was established by the attendees. This document was based off…

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.…

Those at the Ohio Convention of 1851 refused to allow Truth to speak at the event because of her lack of education and fight for abolition. Many were against allowing Truth to speak on behalf of abolition because that meant that the parliamentary rules of the Convention would be violated, as it would rebuke many of the anti-feminists and anti-abolitionists of the time (Washington). However, once…

legitimate for the Germans do develop the Chemical Weapon? The Germans proclaim acting in a legitimate because of the “utilization of projectiles like the German T- Shell, which combined with gas, was in accordance “with The Hague Land Warfare Conventions. Besides of, the situation of the static trenches war produced an alarming risk of shrapnel thousands of soldiers without any cause. Even with that Otto Hahn (a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) wrote his experience, I was very ashamed and deeply…

Susan Brownell Anthony, born in Adams, Massachusetts; and was the second oldest of eight children (only six of the Anthony children lived to be adults) to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read. Anthony became a feminist and suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker activist for women’s suffrage rights and remained active until her death at the age of 86. Susan B. Anthony left an imprint on every woman since she spent most of her life working on social causes; raised in a Quaker politically active…

As a young armadillo growing up in Texas during the 1820s, my life was peaceful and happy. The Federalists who held power in Mexico left me, my fellow armadillos, and the Anglo Americans alone to enjoy and work the land. However, in 1829, the Centralists gained control of the Mexican government and the freedom we enjoyed gradually eroded. As the Mexican government imposed more regulations on the Anglo Americans, the tension which had existed between the two groups due to the Nacogdoches land…

1914, Wald marched with 1,500 woman down 5th avenue in a “ Woman's Peace Parade” ( www.jwa.org). Lillian achieved many things for civil rights, but the most notable work she did was her involvement with the “National Negro Conference”. That conference became the “founding meeting” of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (…

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…