Seneca the Younger

The Women’s Rights Movement that occurred in the U.S during the 19th century was a period in which people were questioning why human lives were being unfairly constricted. There were many people, women especially, that were discontent with the limitations placed upon them under America’s new democracy. The simple fact that women had not gained freedom even after the American Revolution although they’d taken tremendous risks proved to upset many women. Some began to agree that the new republic…

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was born in Moss Side, Manchester. In fact, it is her birth certificate, which states so; else she believed that she was born a day earlier on Bastille Day (The National Celebration) that had a special influence on her life. She was a British political activist, leader of the suffragette movement and was the major contributor in helping women to win the right to vote. She was born and brought up by her politically active parents in England. Out of ten children she…

During the first half of the twentieth century, the Colorado mountains became home to a handful of women who had fled the trappings of their former societies in hopes of refuge and adventure. One such woman was Virginia Donaghe McClurg, who became the first white woman to visit Mesa Verde and in later years would become immensely involved in the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who,…

1. Although during Jackson’s presidency some things were made more democratic, I believe the ladder of his decisions outweighed these points and summarized his election to one where the majority of people lost their voice in the government. His level of democracy was increased by the abolitionist movement, where individuals such as William Lloyd Garrison tried to outlaw slavery and the women’s rights movement, where women began to speak out for gender and slavery equality. Both these examples…

To begin, Stanton made her start in 1848 when she held the Seneca Falls convention with the 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”)…

The fact that two Quaker women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott had the courage to stand up and start a movement by holding the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 for the right to vote and equal rights for not only slaves but for Women 's rights, marking the beginning of something even bigger then they realized and their declaration of sentiments was a useful tool in encouraging others…

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…

A New Woman is a feminist ideal who has evolved in the late nineteenth century and had a reflective power on feminism into the twentieth century. The term ‘New Woman’ was coined by an American writer, Sarah Grand in her article The New Aspect of the Woman Question, published in the North American Review in March 1894. The term was further popularized by British-American writer Henry James, to describe the growth in the number of feminist, educated, independent career women in Europe and the…

Under symbols like ‘Rosie the Riveter’ the 20th Century was monumental in the movement toward a society with civil liberties. It is because of this past that we can ask, is a lack of civil liberties an issue today? The simple answer to that question is no- the Civil liberty issues of the American past have been resolved because we have achieved racial equality, women’s suffrage, and we’ve already gone through the worst we will go through in a long time. First, American civil liberties are no…

This photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a Full Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work,…