Stanton was a leader in the women's rights movement and they became close friends and allies. Susan became completely loyal to the cause of women's rights and became an important leader of the movement. ... However, after the war many people showed small interest in supporting the women's rights movement and they then left the abolitionists to concentrate on their focus of women's rights. ... On this day we celebrate the accomplishments of an exemplary leader for women. ...

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I believe that in order to be an effective leader, leaders must have the quality of inspiration. Being inspirational is important because leaders envision a better future and enlist others to act. ... Leaders enlist others by appealing to common ideas, dreams and values in order to make images of the future. ... She was an early leader in the women's rights movement. The women's rights movement embraced the idea of feminism; which is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed to provide equality amongst the sexes. ...

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This so- called "second wave" of the women's rights movement revived the ERA debate. One of the most prominent leaders of this "second wave" in women's lib was one of Peoria's own, Betty Friedan. ... In the 1970's the women's movement had continued to zero in on the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment. ...

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This so- called "second wave" of the women's rights movement revived the ERA debate. One of the most prominent leaders of this "second wave" in women's lib was one of Peoria's own, Betty Friedan. ... In the 1970's the women's movement had continued to zero in on the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment. ...

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Race over Gender Many fought for the rights and equality of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. ... This clearly shows that Hamer placed race above gender in her efforts in the Civil Rights Movement. ... Hamer, ultimately, lost this battle when the Civil Rights Movement accomplished its goal in the Civil Rights Act in 1968, and she went on to fight other battles, but disappeared from the public eye and is unknown to many today because she was a female leader and as such, did not have many of her action recorded in written history. Many women fought for the rights of African ...

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The women's rights movement of the late nineteenth century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... There were some very important women involved in the Women's Right Movement. ... Abigail Scott Duniway was the leader of the successful fight in the early 1900s. ... Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the early years of the 20th century, who got the campaign to its final success. ...

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The Women's Rights Movement started around the late 1700's and is still being continued by the women of today. ... This in part inspired the key women involved in the early Women's Rights Movement (Encarta). ... One hundred to three hundred people came and supported the movement, both female and male (Encarta). ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was another of the main women in the movement. ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was a leader in women's right's organizations until her death in 1880 (www.mott.pomona.edu/mott1.htm). ...

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Young women who were active in this movement gained experience in the politics of protest, but found that movement leaders often viewed women's issues as trivial and relegated them to gender- stereotyped jobs. ... With this, movement women finally managed to do something only for themselves. ... In 1970's, the women's movement had a great impact on national public policy. ... As a reaction to those results, men tried to stop their movement and in a kind of way, they managed to do so. ... Employing paid leaders and professional staff, who used mainstream tactics as lobbying and f...

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The WCTU played a significant role in the temperance movement of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. ... They have their own specifically conscious, leaders, organization, conventions, council. ... In May 1874, the movement was introduced into Canada by Mrs. ... In the processing, there was raising a bunch of leaders. ... Part III: The work of WCTU Not like very beginning of the women's movement, the WCTU had their own consciousness, independent organization, cadres of leaders. ...

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2.What are the leader's contributions? ... 3.What kind of effect has this leader had on others? ... I had decided on three claims: Leader's Context, Leaders Contributions, and Life after Leader. ... Many did not want Truth to speak as they felt, despite ever hearing her speak, that she would change to meeting into a civil rights movement. ... Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of woman's rights. ...

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Anthony was a pioneer leader in the cause of women suffrage, and her energy was tireless in working for what she considered to be the best interests of womankind. ... Miss Anthony contributed to the women suffrage movement by founding a national organization, public lecturing, and putting national focus on the suffrage issue. ... Her active participation in the movement for women suffrage started in the eighteen-fifties. ... Anthony started the women suffrage movement, but died before women gained the right to vote. ...

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In the U.S. the women's-suffrage movement arose from the antislavery movement and the emergence of such leaders as Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed that equality should extend to women as well as blacks and organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. In 1850 Lucy Stone established the movement's first national convention. ...

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Elizabeth Stanton was one of the country's most influential forces in the women's civil rights movement; without her contribution women today might never have come so close to escaping their role as second class citizens. ... At the convention, the leaders planned to speak on a list of grievances based on the Declaration of Independence denouncing unfairness in property rights, education, employment, marriage, and family (www.womenshistory.about.com). ... She was well aware her father condemned the whole movement that she had started and was deeply grieved by her active part in it, b...

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Women earned their rights through a movement that was started at the Seneca Falls convention. ... Until Lucretia Mott's death in 1880 she remained an involved leader in women's rights. ... The third major woman in the women's rights movement was Susan B. ... In 1840 she became involved in the woman's rights movement and it was in 1850 that she made acquaintances with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ... Throughout her lifetime, she fought for women's rights, as well as playing an extremely active role in the temperance movement as well as the abolitionist movement. ...

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Women In the 1920's The 1920's was a big change for the American culture. A woman in the 1920's changed drastically. Starting with women's suffrage and the women's party in 1920, the major change in their family and home life, the change in their job and educational opportunities...

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For almost fifty years she led the first women's movement in America. ... This I believe is what stemmed Elizabeth's interest in the legal system, and grew to be her involvement in the woman's suffrage movement. ... It and the Declaration of Sentiments were the whole foundation of the movement, and was a turning point in history. ... Stanton thought that it freed its wearer from the confining dresses that made simple movement a challenge (www.lsb.syr.edu). ... The Feminist movement was stopped by the civil war as woman devoted their time to the "great conflict."" ...

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Emmeline Pankhurst was a leader of the women's suffrage movement which helped give women the right to vote. ... " The speech is often considered to be the start of the Western feminist movement's urgency to advocate for its rights. ... " The purpose of "Freedom or Death" was to explain why the movement had turned to more aggressive and violent means to achieve its ends. ...

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The 1970's saw the beginning of a highly organized modern women's movement in India. Violence against women was one of the main focuses of the movement. ... They ruled indirectly, typically demanding monetary tribute from local leaders in exchange for allowing them to rule as they pleased. ... The population base of this movement was the rural and the toiling. ... There were large conferences in Pune and Trivandrum in 1975 on women's issues further bringing the movement into the mainstream. ...

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There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass and George Benson, brother-in-law of the antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... She was a moral leader because she changed the course of the future for women with nothing at her disposal, she couldn't even write. ... They were both spiritual leaders who cared about justice for the people. ... Sojourne...

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She saw her role in the movement as one of instigator - one who "kept others shaken up". Representatives of the movement continued to struggle with President Wilson in an effort to persuade him to support the legal implementation a means of support for the suffrage movement. ... Paul and others in the movement allowed President Wilson to "hang himself" so to speak. ... Obviously, he wanted to keep his opinions about the movement to himself and Ms. ... Many of the women who didn't belong to the movement applauded. ...

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Although he made this policy famous and a success in his time, other political leaders had their hands in its" success in their times as well. ... Allowing the people to have an important part in deciding the fate of the government by voting on their leader, demonstrates how a democracy works. ... Unlike a dictatorship, all the citizens have the power to vote on their leader and the ways of living. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage movement in the early 1920's. ... His term as Prime Minister was ironically during the women's suffrage m...

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It was called the common school movement. Horace Mann led the education movement he made sure kids who didn't have an education get one. in Massachusetts Mann became state supervisor of education. ... They worked to raise money for the movement, yet their fathers and husbands controlled their money and property. ... Fredrick Douglass became a leader in the abolitionist movement. ...

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They distributed a weekly journal called "The Revolution" telling the movement of women suffrage for approximately two years. ... Around that time Stanton was one of the leaders of the women's right movement. ... Both come up with a strategy to split up the movement, and successfully made Wyoming the first territory to give women the vote in 1869. ... This weekly journal helped the movement to spread rapid and was the first official publication of the National Women Suffrage Association. ...

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There, she met the Pankhurst women, three of England's the most active suffragists, and joined their movement. Keeping true to the movement's motto, "Deeds not words", many windows were smashed and many rocks were thrown in order to demonstrate how serious they were about the cause, and their willingness to do anything to get what they wanted. ... Sympathy for the prisoners brought many new supporters to the movement, including the president. ... It was founded in 1985 and allows other women to feel the same empowerment as Paul once did, shaping them into strong and devoted...

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As the century progressed more and more colleges began to accept women, therefore enabling women to become educated and obtain resources that would make them leaders, writers, poets, and so on. ... The movement seemed to be making more and more progress as the months rolled by. By 1920, much progress in the Women's Right Movement had been made. ...

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