Suffrage

wonderful speaker and enabled her to stand up for what she believed in unfailingly. A majority of Shaw’s career was spent working towards women’s suffrage. She was a colleague of Susan B. Anthony and the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) for 11 years. She often delivered moving and influential speeches on behalf of women’s suffrage, but was an ineffective president because she could not coordinate national campaigns, so she stepped down (Encyclopedia 1). This…

"A History of the American Suffragist Movement." N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. This timeline really informed me about all the information and events that occurred during the women’s suffrage movement. Morris, Montrose. "Brownstoner: Walkabout: Brooklyn's Anti-Suffragists." Brownstoner: Brooklyn Real Estate and Renovation. Brownstoner, 2 Nov. 2010. Web. 1 Dec 2015 This secondary source talks about the author's opinion- why she/he takes…

Nothing is easy when people try to change the perception or opinions of others. During this week’s reading, I learned that it was even more difficult for women during this period to change the way society would look at them. Last week I mentioned how quick women had to become adults because of their strenuous living conditions; therefore, the way they started fighting for their rights should not be a surprise for many. Stone, Anthony and Stanton were three leaders that are known for taking the…

and educational/political statues, though faced with many hardships they fought till they were heard and their demands met.Women such as Alice Paul the leader of the National Woman’s Party (NWP), Carrie Chapman Catt the leader of American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and Eleanor Roosevelt would make these historical changes. Women of color also began to fight for their rights, fighting booth racisim and sexisim they were left to deal with even harder challenges than the average white…

violent. After reading Emmeline's statement, I feel that she truly felt that being militant was her only other option. She states that she had tried every other option available to her, but none had worked as they had hoped. Her demands for women's suffrage were not being met, she believed that the only way to fix that was through militant means. Emmeline felt that the damage that would be done upon others was the fact that justice had not yet been served amongst them. Emmeline Pankhurst and…

and it was a positive one. Her time as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association gave her time to voice her opinions to allow every person to vote, man or woman, black or white. Even though she was a woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others said, “They thought blacks must be given the right to vote first” (Shea 17). She was selfless because Ms. Stanton knew that if they tried to fight both suffrage movements at once, both would fail. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader by…

extremely dedicated, courageous and a very determined lady. This determination started at a very particularly young age with her father believing that women should essentially be allowed to get the education that they desire. As a young women’s right suffrage she had great aspirations to once become generally equal to men in the future in a subtle way. She knew that with her courageous and strong desire to seek difference would one…

changed America for the better. It also involved some attempts at reforms that didn’t quite fall through. In just twenty years, parts of America’s economy and government drastically changed such as the end of bad trusts and the fight for women’s suffrage. Others, such as child labor and racial acceptance, stayed unaffected despite reforming efforts. Modern day America definitely shows many aspects of the Progressive Era but some of its privileges were just too drastic to change at the time. The…

devoted her life to end women’s suffrage, and fought to prove that women had the right to vote. In the late 1800s voting was not permitted for women, and if they did they might get arrested. Anthony wrote and delivered stub speeches but didn’t have much success doing so. Nonetheless many years after she died her dedication made an impact in women’s right to vote, and in 1920 the 19th amendment was passed. In her speech Anthony talks about ending women’s suffrage, and her story of how she got…

it was not for her strong beliefs and determination to finally obtain women’s rights eventually, the future of women had a substantial chance of being different (Hogan, “Wisdom, Goodness And Power: Elizabeth Cady Stanton And The History Of Woman Suffrage." 12-14). Finally, the most important detail of Stanton’s leadership role was how she transformed something she believed strongly in into a movement that made an enormous change for the betterment of women in the future (Davis…