William Golding: An Active Women's Rights Activist

Jeannette Rankin was an accomplished women's rights activist, the first woman to ever be elected to Congress, and is very well- known for her votes against World War I and World War II (history.house.gov).

The exacerbation of issues that plagued America for centuries combined with the disturbing realities of urban and factory life gave birth to the Progressive Movement—a movement composed of a diverse coalition that sought to improve modern industrial society and American democracy. This period spawned many ardent American activists. Social critics such as Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Jane Adams advocated for wide-reaching social reform. Others targeted causes that would improve life for specific groups. Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul emerged as the leaders of two organized and passionate movements that, in many ways, defined this era. Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign in the late

Women’s rights is something mainstream that has been fought for since the mid 1800s. Many strong, influential figures have stepped forward calling for change and striving to make differences in our male dominated societies. I would like to give a toast to one of these women’s rights advocates known as Amelia Bloomer. Bloomer was certainly someone that “bloomed” in history. She was the type of outspoken woman that took part of the temperance movement with other influential women such as Susan B. Anthony. Amelia Bloomer became a teacher at age seventeen, despite receiving little education. Her job was also how she met her husband, Dexter Bloomer, who was an editor and co-owner of the newspaper, the Seneca Falls County Courier. Shortly after

Susan Brownwell Anthony is best known to others as the woman who started women’s rights movement for the feminists that came after her. Susan B. Anthony was a vital activist for her time, she was a member of the anti- slavery movement and helped create the woman’s suffrage movement. She spent her entire life fighting for what she believed was right; her determination and fight made her extremely successful in her work as an abolitionist and women’s rights leader, which is conveyed through her many accolades during her lifetime.

Alice Paul’s radicalism played an immense role in ensuring women the due right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, which Congress ratified the Amendment on August 18, 1920. Alice Paul known for her hunger strikes, “the iron jawed angel” that was jailed and force-fed, which gained her sympathy of the people and recognition in the government. Additionally, Paul vowed that America’s start of WWI would not intervene in the struggle for women’s equal rights. Eventually, her strategies, as well an inducement from Carrie Chapman Catt, prompted President Woodrow Wilson to construct a federal suffrage amendment, war action urgency, a stance he had formerly declined to procure. Paul was a pivotal force in the passage and ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her final days, Alice Paul sustained her fight for equal rights for women until her death at the age of ninety-two in 1977. While, Alice Paul never achieved the passing of her crucial goal of an Equal Rights Amendment, Alice single-handedly concluded the seventy five-year conflict of the women’s suffrage movement. Alice Paul, along with the National Women’s Party upheld the women’s equal

The years from 1811 to 1830 in the newly formed United States were marked by the beginning of societal change and the beginning of the removal of Native Americans from the United States in favor of American settlers. One of the changes in society were the beginning of the fight for women's rights. Two of the readings this week, Judith Sargent Murray's, "On the Equality of the Sexes" and ''Angelina Grimke's on Women's Rights'', were notable for the difference that they made in their arguments and tone. While Murray's essay was gentle in its persuasion and quoted Biblical references to make her point that women should be considered equal to men, Grimke's work demanded equality between the sexes and stated that men and women were, and always should

A famous poet named Julia Ward Howe became a big part of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Howe the co-founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement, was a great poet and supported the 15th amendment. (Woman’s Suffrage) In addition, she was the leader of the women's club movement and she helped the making of the New England Suffrage Association.

Imagine what our world would be like if people did not choose to stand up for what they believed in. Many people viewed the government as a protector. Those that viewed differently chose to empower against the injustice and tyrannical acts of the government. These people practiced acts of civil disobedience and they are the ones you usually think of when someone asks you “Who is your hero?” People like Susan B. Anthony decided to believe what their minds were telling them and stood against what they felt was wrong. When individuals are able to stand up for what they believe in they fix laws that were not fair to all citizens and bring change for the better. It is important for people to take a stand on issues of justice in society.

In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

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 legal position of American and English women changed dramatically over the last two centuries. We discuss these two countries together because the evolution of rights is remarkably parallel. The initial situation was also similar, as the legal system in both countries is grounded in the common law (with exceptions in a few U.S. states that were initially colonized by Spain or France).The changes to women’s rights over the last 200 years can be grouped into three phases. During the second half of the nineteenth century, women gained economic rights related to property, child custody, and divorce. During the early twentieth century, political rights were extended to women.

The Women's Rights Movement was a significant crusade for women that began in the late nineteenth century and flourished throughout Europe and the United States for the rest of the twentieth century. Advocates for women's rights initiated this movement as they yearned for equality and equal participation and representation in society. Throughout all of history, the jobs of women ranged from housewives to factory workers, yet oppression by society, particularly men, accompanied them in their everyday lives. Not until the end of the nineteenth century did women begin to voice their frustrations about the inequalities among men and women, and these new proclamations would be the basis for a society with opportunities starting to open for

After joining an expedition to Africa, William Cecil Clayton served as a guide and bodyguard to professor Porter and his daughter Jane. As a result, Clayton appeared to be a chivalrous gentleman, using his experience as a hunter to protect the Porters on their journey.  Once the trio began their search for Gorillas, Jane wanders off and is chased by a group of baboons after stealing back her drawing from a baby baboon. Eventually she is rescued by a Wildman known as Tarzan. With the introduction of Tarzan, Clayton made several attempts to gain the location of the gorillas. However; Tarzan failed to cooperate since he had been distracted by Jane's

In the early eighteen century in Canajoharie New York, Susan B. Anthony, a teacher discovered that men and women have different hourly wages. This commotion made Susan B. Anthony and other female to join the “teacher union to fight for equal wages.” (“SusanBAnthony” par.5) Nevertheless there was one problem, - Susan B Anthony continued to fight for the teacher union actively but she had to end her career as a teacher. Under the circumstances, Susan B Anthony had taken a role to acknowledge that women were not being treated equally. In other cases, men were sufficient about their privileges to dominate women. As a result the women endorse the treatment because they did not have the immunity to assert for themselves. However this conflict was resolved by Susan B. Anthony whom is a woman`s rights activist and political suffrage to women. Susan B. Anthony became well-known because of her history as a long activist tradition in her personal life, controversial for women rights and sacrifices she made throughout her whole career.

Very little is known about literature's most famous playwright. We know that the King's New Grammar School taught boys basic reading and writing. We assume William attended this school since it existed to educate the sons of Stratford but we have no definite proof. Likewise a lack of evidence suggests that William, whose works are studied universally at Universities, never attended one himself!