Susan Cooper

in history as one of the greatest, most influential people in America. Susan B. Anthony was among the women with great ambition and fire to see change in the world around her. She believed all people, gender or race, should have rights. Anthony wanted all of America to feel equal and empowered to work together to fight for the common good. She was a suffragist and abolitionist who wanted women to feel as important as men. Susan B. Anthony was born 1820 in Massachusetts to parents Daniel and…

and Mrs. Adams’s letters, written correspondence fosters close relationships that is protected from public scrutiny. Which is the case for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, otherwise known as the women who lead the rise for women’s rights activism during the 19th century. Stanton held possessed social and civic intelligence that was influenced by her father’s profession as lawyer. When she was young, Stanton…

One example of a woman who hated the cultural mindset of true womanhood was Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony grew up in a home full of advocates, namely for equal human rights for every person regardless of gender or race. With this mindset, she realized how oppressive the cult of domesticity was, and she wanted to change the culture of America to how it is today. However, Susan Anthony’s mindset was far ahead of the times she was in. She wanted a modern America in a time that…

first step in progress is taken” (Rynder). She also became the 1st president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), which was a major organization in the fight for women’s suffrage. Another early leader of the women rights movement was Susan B. Anthony, who co-founded the National Woman Suffrage…

Since the making of the United States woman have always been underestimated with their talents, independence, and intelligent. White men had always been the ones who decide the rules and regulation for our country and kept women and other races at a lower education social status so they won’t be able to compete. When women were able to earn somewhat of an income married women were demanded to give their money to their husbands and were not allowed to own property, could not vote, and were taxed…

the Constitution’s promises of equal rights (Anthony). Anthony’s words, as well as her efforts to forward women’s rights, are what earned her the affectionate namesake of the Nineteenth Amendment--after all, it is also nicknamed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. Susan B. Anthony’s speech roused women into action, inspiring them to want to work for their rights and be allowed to have the basic human rights that were promised to them in the Constitution made by their forefathers many decades…

In this interpretation paper, I wanted to talk about “On American Motherhood” the speech President Theodore Roosevelt gave to the National Congress of Mothers in March 13, 1905. When I first read the speech, I jotted down points I either agreed, found interesting and disagree with. Everyone has their own opinion on this speech and here is my conclusion. This speech was giving in front of the National Congress of Mother and it was intended for the lower and middle class of those times. He…

“Give me liberty or give me death,” a phrase by Patrick Henry, Former Governor of Virginia, spoken during his speech at the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775. This very same phrase without a doubt, describes the passion and dynamic of a group of women who stopped at nothing to fight for American women’s right to vote. This phrase also used in the movie Iron Jawed Angels truly emulates the milestones lead women, such as Alice Paul women would take to end women’s suffrage. In the movie…

Road to Women 's Suffrage On the day July 19, 1848 a meeting was in Seneca Falls, New York. This meeting was organized by a group of local Quakers and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and leading figure of the women 's rights movement. The meeting was held in six sessions, and lasted two days. Many subjects were debated, including the role of women in society and their right to vote. There were 300 men and women gathered at the convention; among them was the famous abolitionist Frederick…

The 19th amendment, Title VII, Title IX, Roe v. Wade; while all of these are ratifications that the United States has implemented throughout its short history to transform itself into a nation whose ideals fall upon equality, there was a time when they did not exist and inequality was rampant among gender, race, and social class. It has taken hundreds of years to reach the societal equality we have today and it is all thanks to the first steps that were taken by women and slaves in the late 18th…