Seneca the Younger

Women did not have the same rights as men for a long time and it was unfair to all the women. One way that the women did not have the same rights was that women did not have the right of speech. The women were not allowed to speak freely like men. The freedom of speech was a denied right for women in places like courts or conventions. (Document 1) In 1840 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The had a lot to say ,but they had to sit…

Thérèse Casgrain is not exactly a household name or one that is heard on a daily basis, but it belongs to a woman who was very important and who made many advances that continue to affect Canada today. Thérèse was a Montreal born woman who was heavily involved in politics and was a renowned social activist, world peace advocate who protested against the use of nuclear weaponry. She founded the Quebec branch of the Voice of Women organization, who wanted to achieve rights for women and to achieve…

The Anarchist’s Dream She was hated by some for the same reason she was loved by others; SHE was a free spirit. Born: June 27, 1869, Kaunas, Lithuania. Died: May 14, 1940, Toronto, Canada. Her existence involved fighting. Fighting for the freedom of speech, gay rights, women's rights, and oh right- inciting riots. Emma Goldman, a tenacious activist, achieved the american dream because she fought for the rights of all humans, dreamed of ideal change, and lived her life with passion.…

Almost one hundred and fifty years ago on July 19 and July 20, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the future of women’s rights. Together, Stanton and Mott drafted the Declaration of Sentiments that echoed the Declaration of Independence, by stating” We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Both Stanton and Mott had high hopes that their declaration would help women gain equality in…

Today I am gonna talk about two people with many amazing accomplishments. Who did more? Who made life better? Who was selfless? Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second of seven children born to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. She was enrolled in public school however once she was seven and the teacher refused to teach her long division. Her father then decided to make an educational program in her neighborhood where Susan and her…

No matter what goals Paul pursued, she always had a plan in mind. And despite differing opinions and outside influences, Alice Paul’s assiduous attitude eventually made the suffrage amendment attainable for the suffragists of the time. Alice Paul launched her career of suffrage with a massive suffrage parade during President Wilson’s inauguration. This grand event paved the way for rallies, lobbying, petitions, parades, election campaigns, and picketing at the White House (“Who is Alice Paul?”).…

Scholars raised a host of questions about the political struggles over suffrage, social reform, and equal rights for both sexes, and they studied changing configurations of domesticity.1 At almost the same time, the field of American Jewish women's history emerged, marked by the appearance in 1976 of Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel's The Jewish Woman in America, and five years later by a special issue of American Jewish History entirely dedicated to women.2 Since that time there…

was able to get the votes needed to pass all 12 resolutions. The public ridiculed the subject of women having their right to vote so some withdrew their support in fear of being mocked or dismissed. Two weeks later, the convention was held again in Seneca Falls following with an even larger meeting in Rochester New York. Nevertheless, the national woman’s rights conventions continued yearly and the focus of growing awareness of women’s suffrage…

Women’s Rights For years women have not been given the right to, educate, vote for election, fight, work and represent. Women’s rights is the fight for the idea that women should have equal rights to men. Until 1935, married women in Australia did not have the full rights to own property.The effort to equal rights for women to remove gender from laws, and behavioral patterns. Nineteenth century The women rights movement began in the nineteenth century, by some women reformers for the…

Susan B Anthony had once said. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”. (Brainy Quotes) During the time of 1848 there was a group of women that gathered in Seneca Falls, New York; to discuss the issues of women’s rights. At that moment men's rights were exposed to many countries at the time, no matter the wealth that they had. Women began fighting for equal rights. The women got together and talked about that all the women's deserve all the rights and…