Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, And Lucretia Mott

First and foremost, the fight for women’s rights is something that has occurred throughout time not only in the United States, but in every part of the world. When it comes to the United States, one cannot deny that it was an important historical event. “The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States had occupied better part of a century” (Source 1). Truly a struggle, for it was not acknowledged by men in the past, primarily white man who had full rights in the nation. Susan B. Anthony was an important leading figure of the Suffrage Movement and contributed to the Suffrage Movement.

Susan's work for women's rights began when she met a mother of young children by the name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851. The two women worked on reforming New York state laws discriminating women. Susan organized state campaigns for legal reforms and delivered speeches written by Stanton.

The women’s rights movement has been influenced by the words and writings of many. Two influential people in the movement include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Abigail Adams. These women paved the way for equality across the United States of America. Without these women speaking out and advocating in their different ways, equality in the country would be much farther

Back in the mid 1800’s the first women’s convention was initiated by Elizabeth Stanton, along with others who founded the Women’s Suffrage Movement. After attending an World Anti-Slavery Society meeting, where the women were required to sit is a separate area away from the men, the women decided that they were little better than slaves and decided to do something about it. (Pearson, 2017)

Over the history of time women were not allowed to have prominent roles and rights in society. Through history and time women have fought for the right to vote, to work for equal pay, the women’s suffrage, gaining property rights, and much more. The first women’s right movement in the United States of America, which started in the 1830s, arose from the campaign too end slavery. Many things such as evangelical Christianity, the abolitionist critique to slavery, and debates about the place of women in the abolitionist movement played valuable roles in the development of the antebellum women’s right movement. These efforts and large steps that women took to destroy and tear down the walls that limited them from having a voice still resonates today.

     Eight years after their denial to take part at the London Anti-Slavery Convention, Stanton and Mott along with many other American women feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, and Ernestine all came together on July 9th, 1848 and agreed to take immediate action on women’s rights issues. The decided to hold the first ever Women’s Rights Convention in American History ten days later at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention would last two days, the first day was only open to women, and the second day, both men and women were invited to hear the address of Lucretia Mott, among many other supporters.

Woodrow Wilson, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Susan B. Anthony share a common purpose in their addresses advocating women’s suffrage.Wilson’s Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment expresses the opinion he holds about the lack of control over women being able to vote; he prioritizes the use of logos to create an argument consisting of present fact and his own belief of how the rest of the world will see them as a nation if they do not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Catt’s The Crisis analyzes her present issue of the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage. Catt explains that through the acknowledgement of women’s suffrage, women have been given more freedom, yet not the same equality as men. Catt wants more than just exceptions to social rules, she wants people to understand that a woman is not only an imperative cog in the societal machine, but equality should never be a crisis again. Susan B. Anthony wastes no time getting to the point in On Women’s Right to Vote; she instantly begins her speech with a strong denial of allegations thrown her way and moves right in to speak about the government basing a law off the sex of a person and how the government is not treated as a democracy. Through each of these addresses Wilson, Catt, and Anthony are divided by their point of view and united by their cause, yet only Carrie Chapman Catt’s address holds the most effective reasoning.

Stanton then wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which was taken from the Declaration of Independence. One of the famous lines was that “all men and women had been created equal”. To see that she took some ideas from the Declaration of Independence was very smart because, some very important men wrote that. Stanton also wrote eleven resolutions, one being that women had the right to vote. Over 100 people, men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments, including Frederick Douglass who was an escaped slave who became a leader of abolitionist movement. This convention helped spread the message about Women suffrage. It just amazes me how much women suffered back then. They had literally no rights at all. They could not vote, sell or buy land and most of all they had no voice between men. Even after so many years women do still experience the same inequality, in which some women get paid less than men and also promotions are more likely to go to men than

Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Brownell Anthony became the second of eight children on February 15, 1820 (history.com). Growing up, Susan B. Anthony learned that women were discouraged from voicing their views (Lifer 299). Anthony developed a sense of independence as well as moral zeal starting at an early age, which helped her realize the need for equal rights granted to women (Encyclopedia Americana 39). In her earlier life, reformers would gather in the family home near Rochester, New York, and this influenced her views on social betterment in America (Encyclopedia Americana 39). Anthony had excellent education at a time when most men were against women learning, and she began a career as a teacher (Cooper 12). As a teacher

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of eight children, and knew the meaning of hardships. Her parents built the towns very first cotton mill, and were an active part of the abolitionist movement. This was a bold membership, given the time period. They were so passionate about the

Anthony’s first paid position was headmistress of the girls department of Canajoharie Academy in 1846. During this time she was deeply troubled by the fact that women received much lower wages than their male counterparts for equal work. She returned to the family farm in Rochester New York when Canajoharie Academy closed in 1849. At this time she began to be fully involved in reform work. She was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 who had played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, which was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The two of them formed a lifelong friendship and ever after were constant partners in the battle for women’s rights and social justice. Their relationship was complimentary: Stanton did the writing and came up with ideas while Anthony excelled at organizing and delivering speeches. Her methods of raising public awareness and building grassroots support for social causes are still in use by political parties today.

During the late 19th century, women were in a society where man was dominant. Women not having natural born rights, such as the right to vote, to speak in public, access to equal education, and so forth, did not stop them to fight for their rights. Women's lives soon changed when Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role to help bring about change.

“The first lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.” Lady Bird Johnson. First ladies tend to be looked upon as simply public figures or as support for the president. Not many recognize the sacrifice first ladies make for their country, or the work they have been volunteered to carry out. Their jobs are much more than living in the White House, selecting the proper china for certain company, or memorizing the names of the many wives of certain foreign leaders. Much on the contrary, the first lady has political significance and each has made their mark on society. Five examples are first ladies Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalynn Carter, Claudia (Lady Bird) Johnson, and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Individual social responsibility is a moral belief and a duty that individuals should perform to safeguard the interests of future generations and fulfill the needs of present society. Injustice is a situation where a person or group of people is treated unfairly due to factors such as race, gender, or religion. Being indifferent and looking the other way to an injustice is unacceptable. Today, we are blessed with many freedoms and liberties. Even though most of these freedoms seem innate to our lives, most have been earned through sacrifice and hard work. Two ordinary yet influential figures in history who were not afraid to be socially responsible and broke the barriers for equality and humanity were Susan B. Anthony and Elie Wiesel. I am

In order for justice to prevail there must be a realization that there are unjust occurrences that need to be dealt with, there must be action taken to show how immense the situation is and how rapidly it should be dealt with, and there must be nonviolent demonstrations for superb end conclusions. There are 3 steps in order for justice to prevail which were ideas derived from Martin Luther King Jr., Lenard Pitts, Henry David Thoreau, and Harper Lee. Those three steps will be explained and discussed throughout this thesis paper.