Susan Cooper

Author: Marie Gouges (7 May 1748 - 3 November 1793) was one of the first women to fight for equal rights. Although she was born Marie Gouges, she went by the name of Olympe Deauges because she did not want to be recognize as a widow when she got married and wanted to start another life in Paris with a different name that she choose from a combination of her mother and father’s name. Born in Montauban, Quercy in the south of France, De Gouges was not your typical woman. She shorty found…

August 18, 1920: the day that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. After more than 70 years of struggle during the women’s suffrage movement, the day finally came; their goal was finally achieved. Many factors contributed to the ratification of this amendment that gave women the right to vote. Some of those factors include the Seneca Falls Convention, which started the entire movement, and the strenuous efforts of suffrage groups, such as the National Women Suffrage Association…

view of women in the United States. Even at an early age, Stanton showed her desire to excel at things that men usually did. She did this to prove her worth and abilities to not only her father, but to everyone. Although, she is not as well known as Susan B. Anthony, who was also a women’s rights activist, Stanton was a very important contributor to all the rights women have today. Even though she had always been aware of the mistreatment of women during her time, it was probably the exclusion…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ” These are the words of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the Seneca Falls Convention, when she read the Declaration of Sentiments. This document marked the beginning of women’s rights. Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments because she wanted equality for women. That Convention held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848 discussed the social, civil and religious condition, and…

For example, the women's suffrage movement, the majority of women did not think that it was fair for the African American's to have the ability to vote before they did. An activist during this movement was Susan B. Anthony. She was a major role in the fight for women's right to vote. Susan was arrested and thrown in jail because she went and voted;she was standing up for what she…

about current issues when she had a family to take care of, a diaper to change and a husband to feed? The whole idea of a woman voting just did not fit in most people 's minds and was considered absurd. Following the convention, Stanton, Mott, and Susan B. Anthony, formed organizations that raised public awareness. Stanton and Anthony founded the American Equal Rights Association and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. They focused their efforts on a federal woman’s suffrage…

Section 1 Question # 2 Between the late 1890’s and late 1920’s, many African Americans struggled for survival and equal prosperity, especially after the effects of the reconstruction period. Many blacks had to live in the rural south, and make a life for themselves through lots of indentures to support both themselves and their families. This time period, was a huge disenfranchisement for blacks being that they had to deal with discriminatory behaviors, social, political and economic disparity,…

conditions and education should be fixed and not benefit only government officials. Women’s suffrage was a major part of the Progressive Era. They we’re fighting for the same rights that men have. Many people contributed to this movement such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth…

1848, the birth of a movement that would change the lives of women in the United States(Wheeler, p.9). What would later be known as the The Women’s Suffrage Movement planted roots in a developing area for this country. Post Civil War era the likes of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a host of other women began speaking out for women in the hopes that their rights could be advanced alongside those of African-Americans. Up to this point in time women rights were under the idea of…

The first time women history was celebrated, it was only for a week. In 1981 women’s history week was declared by congress as a national celebration, but the week wasn't truly celebrated until March 7, 1982. For the next five years it was celebrated as a week, but in 1987 the National Women’s History Project petitioned that the week should be turned into a month. Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 that turned the week into a month. Without all of the women that have worked and are still working…