Susan Cooper

were passed the 14th(idk what this is), and the fifteenth amendment stating that race was no longer an issue but they disregarded the gender issue. In 1869 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman’s Suffrage…

activists who were hopeful that these amendments would grant everyone the ability to vote, not just slaves. This was not the case though. Moreover, the 15th Amendment did not specify that women were excluded, so when some women, among those being Susan B. Anthony, tried to vote under the ambiguous wording, they were arrested. Furthermore, the major women figures, Stanton, Anthony, and Lucy Stone were split apart due to their differences of opinion on supporting the 14th and 15th Amendments.…

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…

fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who, after a number of disputes with McClurg, became known as the “Mother of Mesa Verde National Park” due to the approval of her proposed Hogg Bill. For Susan Anderson, the Colorado mountains allowed her the opportunity to be taken seriously as a female physician…

had the same rights as men, but most were too scared to speak up about the situation. Susan B. Anthony was one of the few women who spoke out in favor of women 's rights, thus becoming one of the most important women in the fight for women 's suffrage. Susan B. Anthony was the child of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony, she was born on February 15th, 1820 in Adam Massachusetts. Anthony was number two of eight kids. Susan and her siblings were raised in a Quaker family who belonged to a Quaker…

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…