The Civil Rights Movement: Women's Role In Feminist History

“Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitioned and pocketed to won three right to vote but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose”(archive.com). The organized movement started at Seneca Falls, NY with a meeting called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The most influential leaders during the movements were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Suffragists and Suffragettes were trying to prove to the public that women could be doing other things apart from looking after the children and taking care of the homes. The Seneca Falls convention was organized by a group of women who had been active in the antislavery movement. The Seneca Falls Declaration called for an increase in women’s rights in these areas, as well as in education for women and the jobs available to

Women have always been fighting for their rights for voting, the right to have an abortion, equal pay as men, being able to joined the armed forces just to name a few. The most notable women’s rights movement was headed in Seneca Falls, New York. The movement came to be known as the Seneca Falls convention and it was lead by women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton during July 19th and 20th in 1848. Stanton created this convention in New York because of a visit from Lucretia Mott from Boston. Mott was a Quaker who was an excellent public speaker, abolitionist and social reformer. She was a proponent of women’s rights. The meeting lasted for only two days and was compiled of six sessions, which included lectures on law, humorous

The idea of peacekeeping and the maintaining of order began centuries ago. However, long ago women were not involved in this. As women did enter within 20th century their role was limited. As time passes, change takes place.

The women’s suffrage movement, was the women’s right by law to vote in elections. The movement was especially big in the United States and in Britain. The abolition movement caused the rise of the women’s suffrage movement and Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Grimke Sisters and Lucy Stone who were all women’s rights activists, also sparked the cause of the suffrage movement. Mott and Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, which was a place to discuss women’s rights. By 1918, women had won the right to vote in 15 states in the U.S. Stanton stated, “... to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife…” (Doc. K). Men aren’t better than women. Men and women should be equal, and they should both have the right to vote. This reform movement really helped expand democratic ideals because the women’s suffrage movement was a success, and all the strong, female leaders also really helped to expand this idea across the

The first women's right convention was held in Seneca Falls New York in July of 1948. This was the meeting that started the women's suffrage movement. The Seneca Falls Convention was mainly organized by Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Nearly three hundred women attended the convention. During the convention Elizabeth Stanton with the help of the other attendees drafted the Declaration of Sentiments.

In July 1848 the Seneca Falls convention, the first women’s rights convention in the United States, is what sparked the Suffrage Movement. During the Seneca Falls convention women talked about the social, civil and religious conditions that women have to deal with. The Suffrage movement is a group of women that decided to come together and fight for the right to vote. This paper will talk about what sparked first wave feminism and the events along the way to get where they are today.

Women’s Suffrage issues became prominent in America’s culture when women began leaving their traditional roles as homemakers. Women became more involved in their communities by seeking jobs and fulfilling leadership roles in which they could improve society. In the 1830’s, thousands of women were involved in the movement to abolish slavery. The first organized gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held in July of 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Stanton would draft a “Declaration of Sentiments, Grievances, and Resolutions,” based on the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming, “All men and women are created equal” (History.com).

Even though African American women have played vital roles in social justice movements, they are often overshadowed because of their gender. Only a few organizations like Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) gave more access for female leadership. But more often than none, women had informal positions of leadership.

In the 1840’s the first women suffrage convention entitled Seneca Falls Convention took place some women thought that their view were too extreme. .Many women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and, Frances Willard created Women Suffrage groups. These women had different ideas of how they should go about becoming equal but all wanted the same outcome.

After the right was denied, many advanced women, such as Frances wright and Ernestine Rose, had been pursuing to seek women’s suffrage right. According to History.com, they hosted the most famous convention, which is Seneca Falls, and this convention had also opened the door of the women’s suffrage movement. There were many suffragists that attended the convention, and they also declared their claims and to outside that they wanted their rights back and to be as equal as men. The Seneca Falls convention was not only the first women’s suffrage movement, but it was also the most important one because it encouraged women to keep seeking their rights with confidence. You can image how hard they were doing all of those events. In the convention, they were giving speeches, planning their wonderful future for all of women and giving their opinion in any many areas, especially in political

Women's fight for rights began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York at the first Women's Rights Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of four, and Lucrieta Mott, a Quaker abolitionist. About one hundred people were in attendance. Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, outlining their grievances and setting an agenda for the women's rights

One of the first Gatherings devoted to Woman Rights in the United States was in Seneca Falls New York. It was a convention organized by Elizabeth Stanton a mother of 4 and a Quaker abolitionist. At that convention Stanton drafted a Declaration of sentiments, grievances, and resolutions, which echoed the Declaration of Independence. She went on to say that all men and women where created equally under god and should thus should be treated equally socially. After some time women lobbyist and Activist continued to grow and eventually women gain the right to vote. And with the right to vote the women's rights movement took a huge leap forward. Society begin to accept women as more equal in the society and in the government.

In the 1920’s women began to fight for their rights like never seen before, this started countrywide movement to fight for women’s rights. In the United States women could not vote but, a movement for women's suffrage began in the mid-nineteenth century at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. ("Women's Suffrage"). The American Women Suffrage Association founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell along with the National Women Suffrage Association founded by Stanton, Anthony, and Gage lead the charge of the movement. (Benson, et al "Women's Suffrage

The Women’s Suffrage Movement commenced in 1848, when a women’s right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Technically, Seneca Falls was not the first to support women’s rights, but suffragists viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement. In this convention, women and men would discuss the problems involving women’s rights. As depicted in the movie Suffragettes, women were allowed to speak and be heard but that didn’t mean that they would get what they wanted. In Seneca Falls, Delegates agreed that “American Women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political Identities.” Also, the Delegates said, “that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” They believed that women should have the right

The IAW was formed to help the fight for women’s suffrage. The women’s suffrage movement was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women’s rights movement. The suffrage movement in the United States gained prominence with the first women’s rights convention in the world: the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, active members of the abolitionist movement who met in England in 1840 at the World