1. Women's Movement and the Right to Vote
Women's Suffrage endured during the time when social standing, race, and gender defined a person's place in society. ... In 1836, one of the first women to publicly speak in front of a mixed gender audience about the Abolition of Slavery was Sarah Grimke. ... However, she was eventually silenced by male abolitionists who considered her public speaking a liability. ... Other men thought that it would be psychologically and physically dangerous to educate women because they thought a woman's brain did not have the capacity to retain knowledge like a man's brain. ... Women su...
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