Seneca the Younger

I found this document by using the database link of Chronicling America and typing in the search engine the exact phrase: “women suffrage”, as well as, selecting the date period of 1865 to 1925. Once I received my results, it was difficult to find a document that I really wanted to read, but I finally found one that pointed out to me at the end of page 1 labeled “The day book., (Chicago, Ill.), January 29, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 1”. As I selected this document, it turned out to be a newspaper…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Women’s Right Fighter Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the earliest American women’s rights activists in the 19th century. However, Stanton was also an active abolitionist with her husband and cousin. During her time, Stanton was a well-educated woman, who wanted to attend a college that only admitted males. It was common that colleges would restrict women from attending there. When it came to Stanton, she focused mainly on the issues pertaining to women’s right…

In 1848 the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York it took them 2 days to finally debate and make a decision that women shall have equal rights as men, and still till this day we are being separated because of our gender. Thanks to Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth C Stanton for the National Women Suffrage association without them till this day we still would not be able to have the rights we deserve as women. In 1893 Colorado was the first state to give women the right to…

There is a start for everything. Whether it was a negative or positive way it was always a start. When Elizabeth Cady first wrote the Declaration of Sentiment it gave people a whole new understanding of the disadvantages women were having. When Franklin D. Roosevelt made the Pearl Harbour Speech, it gave those who were oblivious an insight of the tragedy. These speeches were made to declare information and or statements that need to be said to help the cause that they were currently stuck in.…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the women's suffrage movement (women wanting the right to vote). She founded several organizations and held many gatherings such as the Seneca Falls Convention, on the first day of this specific confrence Stanton read the "Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances" this decleration was written up to modle the actual Declaration of Independence. This specific declartaion convinced many women that the movement needed to be taken to the next level. She…

The extract is a transcript of Emma Watson’s speech as an UN Women Goodwill Ambassador advocating gender equality. The speech is given at a event for HeForShe campaign held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 20 September 2014. Her speech shows her concern about feminism and there is a need for gender equality. Through her speech, she attempts to inform and persuade the audience on the needs of gender equality and a change in views of stereotypes. The speech that was presented uses…

Going to the museum I have learned a lot about the women that suffocates their lives to let me have the freedom to vote and also have equal rights. The Sewall-Belmont House, in Capitol Hill has been a focal point of political life in Washington for over 200 years. The National Woman 's Party bought the house from Senator in 1929. There gathering was to be an effective effect on national governmental issues, furthermore assumed a part in the deceivability of its endeavors. The gathering new area…

Since the beginning of time, girls and boys are expected by society to play certain roles in based on traditions, different religions, and beliefs. These behaviors shape the gender roles in the developing world. Women were denied the right to vote until the nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920, fifty years after African American men were granted suffrage. Woman not having natural rights such as, the right to vote, access to equal education, right to divorce and so forth, did not stop them…

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…

The Seneca Falls Convention The world has always been a hard place for women they get degraded, judged , and treated unfairly. Even today in the twenty first century women get treatment that is different than the treatment that is given to men. Women’s issues are not handled the same even if it is something small they have to fight harder to get solutions. Women who think fighting for equal rights is irrelevant degrade women who see the issue and are trying to fight for what they deserve;…