This movement was partially successful in the United States. ... The Feminist movement is often defined as a movement that advocates equal rights for women. ... The suffrage movement was not a united movement. ... During World War I NAWSA leaders worked both for Suffrage and in support of the war effort. ... It reminds us of the necessity of progressive leaders, organizers, and visionaries in every local community. ...
Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. ... Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... As the Progressive Movement strengthened it enticed many people, feminists used the platform to gain support for woman suffrage. ... After the turn of the century, leaders of a new association, the Congressional Union, took the campaign to the national level. ... Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Comp...
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. ...
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). ...
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. ...
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...
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."" ...
(Out of Many, 633) I agree with both leaders ideology, I feel the only way to obtain more rights is to improve yourself in order to be seen as an equal, then fight for more rights. ... The beginning of the movement in 1848 was marked by the Seneca Falls Convention, where its most prominent leaders Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony drafted a defining document of the women's movement, which was written in language parallel to the Declaration of Independence. ... Finally, amendment nineteen ended the suffrage movement, fifty years after black men were allowed to vote, women achieved t...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
(See Endnote #3) A critic of the women's movement would quickly remind us that women have a right to decline marriage and sex, and pursue their individual interests. ... The 1980's saw the pendulum swing against the women's movement. ... There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are ...
It was the woman's suffrage movement that fought to ensure that all women received fair and equal treatment. ... From this thrust forth a new movement and new leaders of this movement to ensure these basic rights were also shared by black women as well. ... I personally believe without her the movement for equal rights for African American women would not have been as strong as it was with her. ...
Another reason why women thought they should vote is because illiterate, poorly educated immigrant men, got to help choose the nations leaders. ... Many feared the demand for the vote would work against the demands, "they deemed more rational and make the whole movement ridiculous." ...
