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    Lucy Stone American Woman

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    Between 1887 and 1890, Stone aided in the merging of the AWSA with the NWSA, and eventually joined the executive committee of the unified woman 's rights organization the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). However, despite the amalgamation of the two organizations neither Anthony nor Stone 's friendship was ever fully renewed in confidence. On October 18, 1893, Stone passed away in Dorchester Massachusetts…

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    The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is a political text. This text was presented in the first women's rights convention of the United States, held in Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. During this convention, seventy women and thirty men gathered to discuss about the conditions of the rights of women in social, civil and religious life. At that time, the country was enjoying a period in which only free men (white, non-slaves) had the right to vote. In consequence, slaves,…

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    their successful since they have been established. In 1996, The women's team won a gold medal for basketball. The women that help start the industry Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, and Rebecca Lobo were…

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    Feminism In Sports Essay

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    Feminism in Sports Society has always tried to enforce social control in the world. This constant hunt for control in society’s normative compliance has transitioned into the world of sports. Professional sports have been in our country for close to one hundred years; while various sports have progressed at their own pace, industrialization has progressed at even a faster rate. Some of America’s most loved sports such as basketball, football, and boxing have endured the test of stabilization…

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    help of Lucretia Mott. This convention was made a secret and it allowed women to speak up about their feelings towards equality and try to convince others to feel the same way (National Park Service “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”). Additionally, Stanton proved she was a leader when Susan B Anthony and herself established the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Stanton served as the president and when the NWSA merged with fellow suffragists group American Suffrage Association in 1890 Stanton…

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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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    The film, Suffragette looks at the struggles the women who fought for the right to vote went through. The film takes place in London 1912, prior to women having the right to vote. As a result, women's rights were not valued as much. Caffi states that "Every social institution should have as its sole reason for being that of assuring the happiness of the man conscious of his own individuality" (Caffi 1970). A man's happiness, needs, and desires at this time were much more valuable than a woman's.…

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    expand their liberty and freedoms they enjoyed in this time period. Through this goal of cleansing, certain groups; such as, the women’s movement and the abolitionist’s movement, built each other up in order to benefit them both. The women’s movement and the abolitionist’s movement were intertwined in the way that many woman who would go on to be leaders in the women’s right movement got their political start in the abolitionist movement. Through demanding the freedom of slaves due to the…

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    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 family she was motivated…

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    moral zeal early in her life. She became active in temperance after fifteen years of temperance. She wasn’t allowed to speak at rallies since she was a woman. The temperance rallies and her association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the Women’s rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life…

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