Anthony. While Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a wife and mother, served as the writer and idea-person of the two, Susan B. Anthony, never married, was more often the organizer and the one who traveled, spoke widely, and bore the brunt of hostile public opinion. “…Susan B. Anthony, a militant lecturer for women’s rights, fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets.” 3 In 1872, in an attempt to claim that the constitution already permitted women to vote, Susan B. Anthony cast a test vote in Rochester, New York in the presidential election. She was arrested, charged with illegal voting, and found guilty, though she refused to pay the resulting fine and no attempt was made to force her to do so. “…I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.”
She helped to found the American Equal Rights Association. Anthony and a close friend and activist partner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. It was larger than the American Woman Suffrage Association, which it finally merged with. The two women traveled the United States together, giving speeches and urging equal treatment of women in the law and in society. Susan B. Anthony also opposed abortion, which she saw as another instance of a "double standard" imposed upon women.
Cofounder and president of the National Organization for Women (from 1966-1977). She cofounded the First Women's Bank and convened International Feminist Congress in 1973. Gilman, Charlotte (1860-1935) U.S. writer famous for her writings on feminism and labor. ("His Religion and Hers", "The Crux") Ginsburg, Ruth (born 1933) Director of Women's Rights project of the
Throughout history, women have been thought of as the lesser or weaker sex. They were, at one time, not allowed to own property, have a career, or even vote. It was only in 1920 that women were even allowed to vote. In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott called the Seneca Falls Convention in New York to “discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of women”. They created a “Declaration of Sentiments” modeled after the Declaration of Independence and included twelve resolutions concerning rights, privileges and obligations of women, eleven which passed, with the resolution on woman suffrage, or the right to vote, being the point of contention.
Even though she thinks it’s unfair she hesitates and recognizes that men and women should have equal rights. Since most writers in the 18th century were men, society looked at women writers more on the negative side or didn’t take women serious. Between 1700s and 1800s, Anna wanted femininity. Considering women writers didn’t have much freedom with their own creativity. She says, “thou mayest command, but never canst be free”(20).
Single-handedly, her goal was to achieve the basic rights that men obtained during this time, which mainly consisted of voting rights; through the assembly of other women to support and impose the cause. Mott, an intriguing exemplar for all women, pledged to work diligently for women's rights, after the World Anti- Slavery Convention of 1840, in which men refused to seat her. Subsequently, her and fellow women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. During the
They traveled across country giving speeches to show the government that women were just as equal as men. During that time, women were not allowed to vote. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing just that, even though the 14th amendment states that any US citizen is allowed to vote. From the time of her arrest until her trial she would make several speeches about women’s right at many different conventions and forms. From the age of 16 until her death in 1906, Susan B. Anthony was a voice for women.
A few years later, Stanton and her new husband attended their first convention, The World’s Anti-Slavery Convention, in London. Stanton was believed to have made a great impact and was the driving force behind the convention in 1848. At the first convention they attended, they experienced the elimination of women’s rights first hand. According to research, “Stanton and Lucretia Mott were angered at the exclusion of women and vowed to call a woman’s rights convention” (National Women’s History Museum 1). In 1848,
Ehab Degachi Christopher Litman ENG 2150 December 9th, 2012 Mayberry’s article focuses around discussing the role that males play in not only the community of “Bottom” but how their actions and decision making impacts the relationship between Black males and females. She goes to decipher how white men affect the actions of black men who ultimately affect the black females in the story. The white men are seen as superior, so naturally, the black men want to be like them or at least as powerful as them while still resenting them, not worshiping. They tend to be unsuccessful and resort to black females as the solution to their problems. In the article, Mayberry writes “The bottom is not powerful enough, however, to contain the destructive
Despite the antagonism, Elizabeth persuaded the convention to approve a resolution calling for women’s rights to vote. Stanton’s declaration of sentiments, modeled the United States declaration of Independence. Stanton’s declaration stated that men and women are created equal, with the support of Frederick Douglass, who had attended the Seneca Falls convention; the resolutions for feminine voting rights were passed. Elizabeth’s lecture at a second woman’s rights convention in Rochester, new York condemned her role as an activist and reformer. In 1851, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, another female leader who promoted women’s rights in general.