Then came into being the famous movement called The Suffrage Movement during which the women fought for their equal voting rights which all men were enjoying at that time because they were of the view that they were a part of the society too and they deserve all the rights to elect their representatives. This movement was started in 1848 and it ended in 1920. It continued for quite a long time and women had to face many hardships to fight for their own rights. But the period still could not end up in signing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. During the whole period of 1920, women had put their emphasis on promoting the status of
However women's rights movements started way before the 60's. The beginning of women's suffrage is normally dated back to the “Declaration of Sentimens” this was produced at the first womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. In 1848 ("women’s movement." Encyclopædia Britannica). When she claims that her generation “broke these rules”, she makes it sound as if her generation paved the way for women's rights.
Anthony was a strong proponent for women’s rights. Her trial proved to me to be, one of the most absurd hypocrisies of the 19th century for American politics. Although Susan B. Anthony would not live long enough to see the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, her legacy lives forever through every American woman. Leaving the un-answered question of why? Why did it take another century for women to become equal to men?
Although women have the right to vote today, this is quite different compared with women’s condition back in the late 1800’s. Women were treated unfairly; they just belonged to their husbands who were able to control all of their rights and use a moderate coercion if they were disloyal or disobedient. Being a woman who is willing to break the rules to bring back a freedom life for all women, Susan B. Anthony tried to vote for a presidential election and was arrested due to being female in 1872. During her trial, Anthony published a speech “On Women’s right to vote”. In her speech, the main reason Anthony was successful in persuading her audience was that she clearly established an exigent circumstance early and effectively adapted her writing to the kairos of the moment.
She went to New York and began speaking at meetings, getting signatures and also lobbying the state legislature. In 1860, mostly because of Anthony’s efforts, New York created a new law called the “New York State Married Women’s Property Bill. This law stated that married women could own property, keep their own wages, and have custody of their children (susanbanthonyhouse.org). Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton went and campaigned for even more liberal divorce laws in New York. Continuing on in 1869, Anthony convinced the Workingwomen’s Association in New York to investigate the case of Hester Vaughn.
The women's rights movement was primarily concerned with making the political, social, and economic status of women equal to that of men. Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights leader when the women's rights movement was starting to get big. She started the a group called
Steven Buechler presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of organizations in advancing the cause of the woman suffrage movement (1866 - 1920) and the modern women’s movement. While the early movement was primarily a struggle to gain the right to vote, the contemporary movement has focused on equal rights in every sphere of life. Although large and prominent women’s national organizations such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in the suffrage movement and the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the contemporary women’s movement possessed the resources and the organization skills to lobby the government, they were often estranged from the daily needs of women from minority races and working class. In both
Truth then went on to lecture in antislavery and women’s rights movements. It was during her time with the women’s rights movement that Truth delivered her Aint I a Women speech in Akron, Ohio, on May 1851. In this speech, Truth not only addresses the struggle of women, but also the duality of the black women in that they have to combat not only racism, but sexism as well. She begins by talking about how men perceive women as frail saying “Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages and lifted ober ditches and to hab de best place everywhar.” (68). But then she goes on to say that she has never received such treatment from a man and isn’t she a woman as well?
Fighting for a cause The women’s suffrage movement, symbol of nineteenth and early twentieth century feminism, is the one most visible manifestation of women’s emancipation. From the birth of the nation to a Constitutional Amendment passed in 1920, suffrage for women had been batted aside, ignored, criticized, and denied. Those who attacked women’s suffrage were attacking much more than the idea that women as well as men should enter the polling booth. Across America women living in the 1900’s were angry and tired of feeling betrayed and treated as an unequal second class citizen. However these brave remarkable women decided to take action that helped forever changed American history, the right to vote.
* The Woman’s Rights Movement actually began back in the Jacksonian period, when American women first organized to break the shackles of strict domesticity and to expand their rights and opportunities. * Led by two brilliant crusaders, Elizabeth Cody Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the early feminists rejected the notion of female inferiority and advocated full sexual equality with men. * When Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive Democrat, was elected president in 1912, future seemed bleak indeed for the suffragists. * Other suffragists such as Alice Paul and Lucy Burns continued the sisterhood of leadership that Anthony, Woodhull, and Stanton had begun in the previous century. * The Susan B. Anthony amendment was introduced to Congress