Summary Of Look Back By Susan B Anthony

"The grandest and greatest reform of all time,” Susan B. Anthony Stated proudly at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.The full importance of the revolutionary convention that changed the perceptions of women's history. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four key figures in that specific period like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. Just like the title states, McMillen tells the background stories from where they came from and their lives, how they came about to take upon the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their life, and the memorable and astonishing moments they performed during their lifetime.
To understand the pain women, felt,
The purpose of this book is to clearly inform people on the women’s suffrage women faced in the 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Also, to inform readers on why the convention happened and the events that led up to the convention. Cultural history is the tone as it focuses on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony contribution leading up to Seneca Falls Convention. McMillen thinks highly of the original tales about women’s rights and the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. McMillen way of thinking and writing is almost identical to other historians but she contrasts as well. Per a review written by Alison W. Parker she disagrees with the way McMillen inputs just the white middle class Americans rather than the African American side of their thoughts of women suffrage. While reading the book, I noticed how she does an outstanding job of discussing how religion played a role as both a momentum and a barrier to reform, also pays attention to how the women's movement diminished during Reconstruction because of internal bickering, racism and class