National Women's Hall of Fame

Feminism - We women and man are equal ABSTRACT: We have lived in a male dominated society for more than 11 years since 2000. During these 11 years, we female have never ever stopped fighting for our own rights, no matter it’s the voting right or the working right. Kate Chopin – the forerunner of the feminist authors, started her fight for female’s rights from the early in the 19th century. In an era when most of the people don’t even have the idea of gender equality. “The story of an hour”…

was a prominent women’s rights activist, feminist, editor, and writer during the 19th century. She accomplished many achievements, even some after she died. Those achievements changed the role and view of women in the United States. Even at an early age, Stanton showed her desire to excel at things that men usually did. She did this to prove her worth and abilities to not only her father, but to everyone. Although, she is not as well known as Susan B. Anthony, who was also a women’s rights…

feminism movements began in the 1840’s, so did Truth’s career as being one of the most influential African American women of the 19th century. Sojourner Truth vigorously affected the women’s rights and abolition movements through her affluent preachings while traveling and her bold stature as a self-made abolitionist/women’s activist,…

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…

Identity Through A Name In Seneca Falls, NY the first meeting of the Women's Rights Movement took place on July 19-20, 1848. This was just the beginning of women's equality. Women started to wear pants in the 1920’s instead of a dress or skirt. They applied for jobs others thought were not appropriate for women. They also started peaceful protest in the streets demanding a right to vote. Women got creative when fighting for the rights that all humans deserve through their actions, music, and…

reformer. Lucretia Mott was a female abolitionist, a women's right activist, and religious reformer. Mott opposed to slavery and want to end slavery in the United States. She supported William Garrison’s ideas about slavery and his American Anti-slavery Society. She fought for women’s right with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She wanted women to have equal rights as men. Lucretia Mott had so many speeches. “Sermons of Medical Students” and “Discourse on women's” are some of her speech she published. …

INTRODUCTION: Do you see the difference between the male and female population? There is a little difference today, such as the amount of income between the two and how some jobs/activities are men orientated. As of today we tend to view men and women equally then people did in the past. In chapter eighteen of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, I chose to write about three of the four documents which are all written by female activists. The first source is from a woman in New York State…

Nicole Moorefield Macpherson AP English III September 5, 2017 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls On July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the course of American history forever. Standing before a crowd of almost two hundred women, Stanton read aloud the document she had prepared. The “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances” or the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was structurally based on the Declaration of Independence,…

Phillis Wheatley began her journey to fame by writing to “Reverend Samson Occom, a converted Christian Mohican Indian minister”, having her first verses of poetry published in a Newport, Rhode Island newspaper in 1767, and putting poetry in The Boston Censor three times in 1772 (Robinson 712-713)…

worked closely with Susan B. Anthony who was a feminist and an american social reformer. Stanton was the president for the National Women Suffrage Association. Stanton was a part of this association for twenty years. Stanton graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary. Straight out of graduating from this seminary she started her path of being an abolitionist and the women’s rights movement. This started…