led the United States through the process of gaining the new country an identity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. guided the black community through southern racism‚ and is responsible for the advancement of civil rights in the twentieth century. Susan B. Anthony was the head of the women’s rights movement to gain female suffrage. All of these leaders share something in common; for without the support of the every day people of the world‚ none of the three would have been successful in their goals as
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responsibilities‚ a lack of educational and economic responsibilities‚ and the absence of a voice in a political debate. In 1850 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony‚ a teacher in Massachusetts‚ met and made an alliance of a bunch of different women’s rights activists. For most of the 1850s they fought against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women. Anthony and Stanton attempted to include women in the 14th and 15th Amendments. These girls attempted many different things and still came out to be
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Paul and Lucy Barnes (Frances O’Conner) join forces with Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith) and Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston) who are the leaders of NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association) founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. President Woodrow Wilson is adamantly against this movement and abuses his power as president to try and keep women in their place. Eventually Paul and Barnes split from NAWSA to form the NWP (National Woman’s Party) This brilliantly written
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the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions declaring women equal to men set the stage for the Women’s Suffrage Movement." (pg.457) The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a feminist movement that pushed for the right of women to vote. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National American Women Suffrage Association. "Although several states allowed women to vote in state and local elections‚ women did not have voting rights in national elections." (pg.458) Many women organized marches of protest in
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fighting for political justice for Americans. For instance‚ the women’s movement began after the female community‚ caught up in the fervor of the awakening‚ realized they too could ’purify’ the country. Several leaders began to emerge such as Susan B Anthony‚ Catharine Beecher‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These women sought to gain women’s suffrage‚ freedom from their male spouses‚ rights to work and to be educated‚ rights to property‚ and representation in the government which they
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were not allowed to vote. In 1870‚ the 15th amendment was passed‚ which allowed African men to have the right to vote. Women had realized that it was unfair for slaves to be able to vote‚ and not women. It specifically caught the attention of‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Later‚ in 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention was held. The convention was held by‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The convention was about women’s rights. Women were inspired to change the
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Susan. B Anthony- On women’s right to vote In the 1800s‚ women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay. | | | Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election‚ without having a lawful
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and the woman could not do anything without consulting the men. Women were expected to be housewives‚ to raise their children‚ and thinking of a job in a factory was a dream that was never thought impossible. But‚ as years passed‚ women such as Susan B. Anthony‚ Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone‚ and Elizabeth Blackwell began to question why they were at home all day raising the children‚ and why they did not have jobs like the men. This happened between the years of 1776 and 1876‚ when
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When people think in back to the late 19th and early 20th century‚ many think of men fighting in war‚ working in harsh factories‚ or working on a farm. But what about the women at this time? Many people believe men played the most important role in this era‚ but women were just as equally helpful. If it weren’t for what women did then‚ things would not be the same now. Women played just as important roles as men did. Without women‚ men couldn’t have done some of the important things they did back
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It amazes me how what these women did for not just themselves‚ the women of that time‚ but for also the women of today. They were head strong and very determined‚ had they not be‚ would we as women have rights today? Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony were two of the women that fought for our rights as women. Had it not been for Elizabeth Stanton and the other ladies holding the Women’s Right Convention in Seneca Falls‚ New York on July 19-20‚ of 1848 I’m not really sure if we would even have
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