Susan B Anthony On Women's Suffrage

As a young woman in the state of West Virginia I have the right to vote, receive a formal education, and the ability to have a voice. I do not take these rights for granted. Woman started the privileges I have today. These opportunities began with three outstanding women in our history. Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt have been a driving force for women to have the right to vote, to seek education, and to speak their voice.

No true words were spoke than those by Ms. Susan B. Anthony, “Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” Those words are still true today. Even though Ms. Susan B. Anthony, Ms. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other activists worked hard to get equal rights for women to allow them the right to have a say in how our government is run there are still places in the world where women and even some men aren’t allowed to vote. Some of those places may actually be surprising, others maybe not so much. Even still some of the trials these women went through to end women’s suffrage and the lack of political equality is worth taking a look at even ninety-one

Women’s suffrage, or the crusade to achieve the equal right for women to vote and run for political office, was a difficult fight that took activists in the United States almost 100 years to win. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, declaring all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men, and on Election Day, 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the very first time.

The 19th Amendment guarantees any woman the right to vote in a political election. Prior to August 18, 1920, this amendment did not exist. This was a very powerful boundary for women to overcome, as it took decades of unrest. Beginning in the mid-1800s “suffragettes,” otherwise known as women who wanted to right to vote in elections, began protesting, lobbying, and attending rallies. Many American citizens found that this was scandalous, unladylike, and a radical challenge to the constitution.

Speech delivered in 1871 by American social reformer and suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony, in which she argued for women's right to vote. Anthony, who founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869, detailed the movement's case for American women to gain the ballot. Disenfranchisement, she asserted, denied women justice and equality by withholding from them a democratic society's most basic prerogative—direct representation in the political process through the power of the ballot. She renewed the NWSA's demand for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution securing women's right to vote. Like the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment (ratified in 1870) secured voting rights for African Americans,

Susan B. Anthony was a leading figure in the Abolitionist and Women’s Suffrage Movement. In 1866, she partnered up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to form the American Equal Rights Association. This group was radical, and very controversial, considering that not all women agreed or even wanted voting rights. Later on in 1869, Susan and Elizabeth formed an even more radical group known as the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), that took place in New York. Soon after, Susan B. Anthony was arrested and brought to trial in Rochester, NY, for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the Presidential Election. Shortly after her arrest, she gave her speech, “On Women’s Right to Vote.”

Susan B. Anthony was a leader and also founder of the National Women’s Suffrage movement along with Elizabeth Cady.

The main arguments of this book is about the work Susan B. Anthony did for the suffrage movement. I have chosen Susan B Anthony bibliography of A singular feminist to represent the feminist perspective. This book resonated with me because it showed how strong women are. The point of this book was to specifically, talk about her work as a woman's suffrage activist. The topics covered is about Susan B. Anthony sacrificing her entire life to advocate equal rights for women and to get slavery abolished. I think of her actions as being a phenomenal fearless woman. If she did not advocate fearlessly for women we wouldn't have the opportunities that exist today. For instance; being able to run for office or vote women wouldn't be able to participate in if it wasn't for her using her voice to make a change. I think that as human beings if we notice a law that

Until August of 1920 women couldn’t vote. The issue wasn’t well-known until 1850 when the National Women’s Rights Convention was formed. After that, the issue was recognized and more groups like this were popping up. More women realized that this was an issue and fought to make it legal for women to vote.

Through her efforts to fight for equal rights for women throughout the 1800’s, Susan B. Anthony played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement and created opportunity for generations of American women.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men and women are created equal.” In the 19th century, the state of freedom of women in the United States was limited and contained a non-egalitarian relationship between men and women. Due to the effect of the Seneca Falls Convention, led to a time of change and reform known as the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Woman 's Suffrage was the struggle for woman 's right to vote and run for office. The mid 19th- Century women in different countries formed organizations to fight for suffrage. The first international woman 's rights organization formed the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1888. In 1904, the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was formed by British woman 's rights activist Millicent Fawcett, American activist Carrie Chapman Catt, and other leading woman 's right activists.

Women’s suffrage is commonly known as women’s right to vote and the ability to stand for electoral office. The match-up between men and women was never close to being fair in the beginning. Women weren’t allowed to do anything men were. It all started in 1840, when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were banned from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. (Francisco 1997.) This fired them to rally a Women's Convention in the United States. They eventually hosted this convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York where Ms. Stanton wrote "The Declaration of Sentiments," which created an outline of the events to come in the next upcoming years (Lott 1999.) In

California women and men worked tirelessly to strengthen the women’s suffrage campaign from 1893, when the state legislature passed an amendment permitting women to vote in state elections, through the final passage of the amendment in 1911. The strength of the movements themselves, passionate support overcoming harsh opposition, pushed by the people and the organizations championing for the women’s vote were the main contributing factors which accumulated in the eventual passage of Amendment 8. Since California women have begun to vote, there have been many advancements and setbacks in the other women’s rights movements, including the Nineteenth Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment.

It is said that history repeats itself and I do believe in this statement. History won’t repeat itself exactly as it is; the times and the people aren’t the same, but the motives and situations can be very similar. Moments such as Napoleon and Hitler’s invasion of Russia are situations that display how history can repeat itself. Napoleon in 1812, tried to invade Russia. But because he did not prepare for a much longer fight and especially in Russia’s cruel winter he had to retreat. Hitler would then try to invade Russia in 1941, and because of the same thing, not being well prepared and the harsh freezing weather, he too had to bring his army back. They both had different