Susan Brownell Anthony Women have come a long way in society and much of the thanks go to Susan B. Anthony, who spent her life fighting for the rights of women. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice. Although most girls did not receive a formal education in the early 1800's, Susan B. Anthony's father, Daniel, a 6th generation Quaker, believed in equal treatment for boys and girls.
This is where Alice primarily learned about the suffrage movement and formed her strong commitment to social justice. Alice attended Moorestown Friends School, where she then graduated at the top of her entire class. From there she went to Swarthmore College, co-founded by her grandfather, and earned a Bachelor degree in Biology.in order to avoid going into teaching work, Paul completed a year at a settlement house in New York City after her graduation, living and mentoring settlement students as part of the College Settlement Association. working in the settlement taught her about the need to right injustice in America, Paul quickly saw that social work was not the way she was to achieve this goal Alice Paul then attended Swarthmore College, where she studied law. 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 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
(3) A man was in constant control of a woman and she had to be dresses nicely, keep a clean and orderly home, and teachthe children, upholding finances as well as being there emotionally and physically. It wasn’t easy for a woman to live with no sort of control over her life, that of her offspring or how she felt, the turn of the century must have been an enlightened adjustment. (3) Women Past Lived Page 4 marriedyoung usually to some other family that had some sort of political status or looked good for her family. The girls on the cheap side of town were usually not married until their twenties for they where need to help out with the farm land and around the house. Women could not own Women Past Lived Page 5 Female’sslaves remained slaves forever and never had real security.
Women were looked at has being less than men during the 1890s.Soceity believed women were raised to get married, bare children, cook and clean (James, 2008). Raising their family’s was considered their jobs their career. If a woman was not married it was accepted of then to take care of their elders. At one point it was even believed that if women learned it could cause harm. In the late 80s women could not receive a doctorates degree in psychology, it was extremely
The two women were from the NAWSA organization. They wanted to work for the woman suffrage on the federal level not just the state and local levels, which led them to split from NAWSA in 1914. NWP was the first group to picket the White House, conducted many marches and hunger strikes. NWP eventually weakened and became marginal in the women’s movement and got little to no recognition for their part in helping get the nineteenth amendment passed and ratified. 6) Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational institutions is Title IX of the Educational amendments act of 1972.
It was later ruled that those arrests were unconstitutional, due to the fact that it was a peaceful demonstration. Several attempts at making amendments to the Constitution were made, but to no avail. After years of protests, pickets, and marches, women finally gained the right to vote in 1923. The next point of evaluation is the Civil Rights Movement. While the Civil Rights Movement did not last as long as the Woman Suffrage Movement, its impact on American history has been a profound one.
As Ellen begins to go deeper into this debate she explains why so many women change their name. The women she asked, who have changed their names, told Ellen they changed their names because “it's what's done.” Ellen feels that this tradition of changing your name was put into place because wives used to be treated as property, and needed their name to be changed to prove their commitment to their husband. Today women are no longer treated as property. Women are able to choose their husbands, whereas in the past the girl's parents usually would choose for a man her. Even though there is no need to have a name change, no need
Assignment 1 Legal rights and privileges of women in Blackstone’s day with those of American women in the mid-twentieth century bear no resemblance. Over the years women have fought long and hard to be able to obtain and maintain legal rights and privileges that the male gender is born into. Females were molded and primed to play the part as an obedient wife and mother with instruction that your thoughts and opinions are kept to yourself. The perseverance of brave women helped today’s generation of women such as myself have the same equal rights as that of men. During the Blackstone era women lost the limited amount of rights they did possess when they got married for example; “that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended
U.S. History Professor Belanger Analysis on Reconstruction Ends Dec 14th 2011 Elizabeth cady Stanton wrote a paper entitled “Home Life” which talks about women feminism and how women wanted to be equal just like men in marriages. In the early 1800s women had no rights in terms of voting for high ranking officials and they weren’t allowed in court rooms to voice their displeasure on how the government views them as just being care takers. Elizabeth Stanton worked extensively with Susan b Anthony on establishing an association that would fight for women rights and women suffrage. In 1875 Susan b Anthony who was suffragists voted in the presidential election hoping the fourteenth and 15th amendment would get reconstructed giving women