This excelled Burns and she quickly rose through the ranks. Ursula graduated with her Master’s over 30 years ago; when women CEO’s were not imaginable and black women CEO’s
An extremely important court case during the Progressive Era, Muller v. Oregon not onl improved the working conditions for women, but expanded the need for legal evidence for a court case too. It all began when women workers were forced to stay longer than their normal time, violating an already-existing Oregon law that stated women could not work longer than 10 hours. Curt Muller, the boss, was fined, but soon brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court so it could be overturned. The event reached Florence Kelly, head of the National Consumers’ League, and she quickly recruited a skillful lawyer, Louis D. Brandeis, to help her with the case. With only a month to prepare and the Court having struck down a similar law in New York to regulate hours, the court hearing began.
The Pankhurst women were militant suffragist who stood by the notion of “deeds, not words”. This idea meant that women needed to use drastic measures to achieve gender equality because subtle efforts such as petitioning and picketing were not proven to be effective. Alice joined the Pankhurst women and brought attention to the movement landing them front page coverage in local newspapers with their unconventional, yet effective methods such as window smashing and heckling. Alice became a revolutionary which led her to imprisonment and hunger strikes where she was fed under forceful conditions. While imprisoned she remained steadfast and was encouraged by words written upon prison walls: “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to
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.
Anthony helped establish the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex. In 1872 Susan voted illegally and was put on trial. She could not even speak at her own trial because she was a woman. She was fined $100 which she never paid. Susan never gave up fighting for women’s suffrage.
All were members of the National Woman's Party (NWP). They were the first of a long procession of women jailed on trumped-up charges solely for demonstrating for their right to vote. One of the most admired women of their time was Alice Paul she was one of the most daring and imaginative leaders the women's movement had ever seen. Paul soon became the head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In March 1913, Woodrow Wilson began his first term as president.
She was jailed many times over the course of her life for publicly speaking and writing about her beliefs. In the early 1900’s she worked in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood of mostly poor, immigrants. She treated many women after “back alley abortions” or attempts at self-induced abortion. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously decide whether she will or will not be a mother,” (The Biography Website, 2014) It wasn’t until 1936 that the Supreme Court ruled that doctors could legally prescribe and discuss birth control methods. While I don’t agree with her thoughts on eugenics, I strongly believe in the right of every person to make decisions regarding their own health.
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 was also put on trial and fined. She refused to pay the unjust fine which denied her chance to appeal, but was not imprisoned for it. Congress laughed at her when she gathered petitions from twenty six states and ten thousand signatures asking for passage of a suffrage movement. In territories where women had the vote, Anthony campaigned to make sure they were not blocked from joining the union (“Biography” 3). She composed and published “The History of Women Suffrage”, founded the International Council of Women, and the International Woman Suffrage Council.
Hard Work Always Pays Off From the start of 1820 women have been wanted to be able to vote. From protest to being denied the right to vote , after 100 years of this ongoing struggle women were finally granted the right to vote because of the 19th amendment being ratified. Basically what the 19th amendment did was prohibit any U.S citizen to be denied the right to vote based on their sex. The nineteenth amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. At the 1920’s party my group presented one of the main event of the 1920’s that has changed history ever since.