Nicole McCray Dr. Davis POL-100 10/08/12 Alice Paul Alice Paul was one of the most significant figures in the movement to secure women’s rights in America. As educated, Paul used radical political strategies to produce favorable results for the Women’s Suffrage movement. Her militant actions eventually led to the ratification of the 19th amendment which secured women’s right to vote. Alice was born in Paulsdale on Jan 11, 1885 to William and Tacie Paul who eventually had two more children after Alice. Alice’s parents were Quakers, and instilled their religious beliefs into her.
(www.peaceisawomansjob.com/jeannette_01.htm) Women in the west could now own property, vote, and hold office, and were fully expected to fend for themselves in society. These changes in women’s rights proved to the leaders of national suffrage campaigns that society could in fact function and still grant women the right to vote. The expansion of the United States must be regarded as crucial to the suffrage movement by existing as a model for a society that enfranchised women. Both the state-by-state and national campaigns looked to the free women of the west as examples, proving to the country that women indeed deserved the vote. after accomplishing a long sought after goals and overcoming tremendous obstacles, they achieved great lengths which led to their vicotory.
Her work when she graduated took her to England where she became active in the Women's Suffrage Movement, which followed by her joining the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This is where Alice realized her true calling. She didn't want to be the social worker she graduated college to be. She wanted to win the battle of equal rights for women. Alice Paul, a Quaker, invariably described by her contemporaries as “slight and frail,” was by temperament and training a
This was a big change as, before this period, women hadn’t been able to put forth ideas to even challenge legislation let alone contribute to the making of new laws. The custody of children act 1839 played a big part in this change. This act came about when a woman - Caroline Norton - wrote a pamphlet which she named ‘The natural claim of a mother to the custody of her children as affected by the common law rights of the father’. Within this pamphlet Norton talked about the unfairness of the current laws which allowed the father to have absolute rights to the custody of his children no matter what, yet a mother, even if not proven guilty of adultery or any other
Her novel `The Awakening' (1899) shocked many people with its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and artistic longings. Collins, Martha Layne (born 1963) Kentucky's first female governor and first woman to chair the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors. Friedan, Betty (born 1921) Born in the U.S., a famous author and known feminist. She wrote the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique" and challenged traditional roles of women. Cofounder and president of the National Organization for Women (from 1966-1977).
Between 1890 and 1913 two groups were founded to highlight women’s suffrage and to push for reforms including allowing women to vote. Through the hard work and effort of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party (MWP) women achieved the right to vote in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. The current impact of the women’s suffrage movement in society today is the fair and equal treatment of women, having and sustaining the right to vote, and entering into politics. Although more women today are using the rights that were gained in the 1900’s there is still a long way to go. Issues such as equal pay, “the glass ceiling”, and political involvement are still being fought for.
The peaceful campaigning of the suffragists’ was a key factor in women receiving the vote. The suffragists’ started the whole route of women gaining the vote; they were the ever moving force behind the movement. However historian Martin Pugh suggests that “Suffragists would probably have done better to have made common cause with all unenfranchised men and women from the start and thereby they might have extended their appeal” because all men had not yet received the vote it was argued that women should not receive the franchise when it was not fully given to all men. However there were other contributing factors leading up to 1918 and women gaining the vote. They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand.
The film portrays the struggles and heartaches of each woman’s life choice, displaying the constraint placed on the 19th century woman by the ideal of female domesticity. It also traces their journey from the abolitionist movement to the women’s right movement also covering the first women’s right convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Film shows the struggle in different segments such as the fight for legislation to protect married women’s property right. These segments introduce different historical figures such as female radical thinkers Lucretia Mott and the first ordained female Reverend, Rev Antoinette Brown to abolitionist Fredrick Douglass, William Garrison and Wendell Phillip. The film also shows the deep friendship bond between Anthony and
Feminism For this second writing assignment I chose Issue 7: Has Feminism Benefited American Society? This article focuses on whether the feminist movement had a good or bad effect on society as a whole in the long run. Barbara Epstein is in favor of the feminist movement and its effects while Kate O’Beirne is very opposed to it. Barbara Epstein says that yes in fact feminism has benefited American society. She focuses her energies on the evolution of the feminist movement, how it came about and progressed along the way to where we are at a standstill today.
Freedom is happiness; it is the ability to create ones own happiness. The first amendments of the constitution, The Bill of Rights was written to ensure American rights and that Americans rights will not be denied these rights. In the 1900’s women were denied their basic rights as an American citizen. Margaret Sanger saw women as individuals who were stripped of basic freedom and she petitioned for what she knew was right. Letting a women control her own body is