Susan Blackmore

SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony: Equality Starts With One Voice Women did not always have the right to vote. It wasn’t until a woman named Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women that the issue of women voting was ever truly thought about. On top of driving people to think about the rights of women, Anthony also drove people to consider the rights of African Americans and fought for temperance. Susan B. Anthony, as an evangelist, believed…

until the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 (Cheyney 8). Throughout history many brave historical figures have stood up for freedom for all citizens in America. Among those many Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth all greatly impacted America by contributing to human rights. Susan B Anthony impacted human rights through her influential speeches…

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…

Susan B Anthony, as well as many American women had conflicts with society because they were not able to access the same bundle of rights as men. The U.S government's lack of willingness to compromise and allow women to vote and achieve equality resulted in Anthony's arrest, the growth of the Suffrage movement and freedom for women and segregation. Over 100,000 women and some men who supported the National Woman's suffrage association would have many speeches and from protest to speak up for…

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,…

In what is known as the first world or the civilized world, women have been making large strides in their fight for equality. Women have been protesting and standing up for equal rights. They are no longer accepting the old ways of life and women are now pushing for equal wages, equal professional opportunities such as the ability to become a high standing member of a corporation or actively participate in politics and much more. It is slowly becoming more accepted that women can experiment with…

The movement for women's rights was one of the three most prominent movements in the history of the twentieth century. Among the events that have actually contributed to the development of the movement, much attention and high level of recognition is devoted to the Seneca Falls Convention that was held in 1848. At the modern time, this convention is referred to as the most prominent event in the history of women's rights movement designating the beginning of the worldwide campaign for the…

Fanny Wright's Impact on the Women's Movement "I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.” (Fanny Wright). Fanny Wright was a lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She was married to her cause and used her whole life pushing what she believed in. While this list if long it just barely grazes all of the things she was. She was a first. She was the first women to speak to a large audience of men and women…