Analysis Of Women's Suffrage By Olympia Brown
Brown and the Fight for Women’s Rights
During the 1860’s women were expected to not pursue education and become stay-at- home mothers and simply live their life to serve their families but Olympia Brown decided to go against these norms and on 1863, Olympia Brown became the first woman known to graduate theological school and to become that same year, the first woman to be ordained. Olympia Brown stood up for women’s rights by publishing her works into a society where they did not accept women rights.
One of Brown’s works, Women's Suffrage, is a great example of how she used her voice and spread it to advocate for women’s rights. This is one of the quotes that she had in her book and it states :
” Members of the legislature are often unfamiliar …show more content…
The next quote is given by Charlotte Coté, who was an admirer of Brown and she wrote a book that specifically describes her called, Olympia Brown and the Battle for Equality. In this quote it briefly talks about Brown’s movement, “They had visibly and vehemently protested their plight of second-class citizenship, focusing the attention of the nation and the world on a democracy that denied half of it's citizens the right to vote.” (Coté, 172) This quote also describes the motive Brown had for standing up for women in this country. Overall, the pamphlet she made really helped women have a voice and the way Coté described the movement was accurate as to why Brown joined …show more content…
In this quote Greene basically gives a description of what Brown does after the 19th century passed and she states, “ Though Mrs.Brown seventy-eight years old in 1913, she was, as always, ready to act upon her beliefs. She became a member the National Advisory Council of Woman’s Party and an active militant.” This quote is evidence of the dedication Brown had again for women’s rights and how even in her retirement she always stood up for her beliefs and as time went on her dreams came true for women’s right to
During the 1860’s women were expected to not pursue education and become stay-at- home mothers and simply live their life to serve their families but Olympia Brown decided to go against these norms and on 1863, Olympia Brown became the first woman known to graduate theological school and to become that same year, the first woman to be ordained. Olympia Brown stood up for women’s rights by publishing her works into a society where they did not accept women rights.
One of Brown’s works, Women's Suffrage, is a great example of how she used her voice and spread it to advocate for women’s rights. This is one of the quotes that she had in her book and it states :
” Members of the legislature are often unfamiliar …show more content…
The next quote is given by Charlotte Coté, who was an admirer of Brown and she wrote a book that specifically describes her called, Olympia Brown and the Battle for Equality. In this quote it briefly talks about Brown’s movement, “They had visibly and vehemently protested their plight of second-class citizenship, focusing the attention of the nation and the world on a democracy that denied half of it's citizens the right to vote.” (Coté, 172) This quote also describes the motive Brown had for standing up for women in this country. Overall, the pamphlet she made really helped women have a voice and the way Coté described the movement was accurate as to why Brown joined …show more content…
In this quote Greene basically gives a description of what Brown does after the 19th century passed and she states, “ Though Mrs.Brown seventy-eight years old in 1913, she was, as always, ready to act upon her beliefs. She became a member the National Advisory Council of Woman’s Party and an active militant.” This quote is evidence of the dedication Brown had again for women’s rights and how even in her retirement she always stood up for her beliefs and as time went on her dreams came true for women’s right to