Women+suffrage

In America in the 1820's women suffrage begained with the writing of Fanny Wright.Her book Course of Popular Lectures (1829).She wrote this book because she wanted rights for women.Culminating in 120 with the passage of the 19th amendment.This provided "The right of citizens of the United States that vote shall not be denied by the U.S or by state on account of sex.The Seneca falls Convention of 1848 formulate the demand for women suffrage in the usa after the American Civil War.

Some woman-suffrage advocates, among them Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, believed that this was their chance to push lawmakers for truly universal suffrage. As a result, they refused to support the 15th Amendment and even allied with racist Southerners who argued that white women's votes could be used to neutralize those cast by African Americans. In 1869, this faction formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association and began to fight for a universal suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution.Women suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status.

Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and six other women to organize the larger National Women's Rights Convention in 1850. This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights. While conventions provided places where women could support each other, they also highlighted some of the challenges of unifying strongly opinionated leaders into one movement. Women's rights activists faced difficult questions.Some future leaders got their start at these meetings.

Twenty-six-year-old Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the eventual leaders of the movement, presented her first speech at the 1852 meeting. She spoke so timidly that few could hear.By 1860, women's rights advocates had made some headway. In Indiana, divorces could be granted on the basis not only of adultery, but on desertion, drunkenness, and cruelty. In New York, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, and Ohio, women's property rights had expanded to allow married women to keep their own wages. Clearly there was still much to be done. However, reformers had given a name to women's oppression and had set into motion the movement that would continue to change American attitudes for years to come, as they pushed for reform in everything from education to underwear.

**Susan B. Anthony was a american civil rights leader who played a pivotalrole in the 19th century women right women right movement.She was co-founder of the first women's temperance movement. She was born on Feb.15,1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.** Elizabeth Cady Stanton. American social activist, abolitionist, and suffragette, organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women.

 Marianne Hainisch.Austrian activist, proponent of women's right to work and to receive education 

  Kate Sheppared.New Zealand suffragette, influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first national election in which women were allowed to vote) 

  Shirin Ebadi.  On December 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. 

 

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Grace Greenwood.first woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Ida B Wells. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">American civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragette noted for her refusal to avoid media attention because she was African American. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Raden Adjeng Kartini. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Emily Howard Stowe. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Canadian physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In the United States, Stowe met and learned fom Susan B. Anthony. A witness to the divisions within the American woman's movement, Stowe adopted a patient strategy, encouraging gradual progress, when later advancing women's rights and suffrage in her own country. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Hoda Sharrarawi. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Egyptian feminist, organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women's social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyption Women and the Wafdist Women's Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union

The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. Under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women’s rights pioneers, suffragists circulated petitions and lobbied Congress to pass a Constitutional Amendment to enfranchise women.

At the turn of the century, women reformers in the club movement and in the settlement house movement wanted to pass reform legislation. However, many politicians were unwilling to listen to a disenfranchised group. Thus, over time women began to realize that in order to achieve reform, they needed to win the right to vote. For these reasons, at the turn of the century, the woman suffrage movement became a mass movement. In the 20th century leadership of the suffrage movement passed to two organizations. The first, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, was a moderate organization. The NAWSA undertook campaigns to enfranchise women in individual states, and simultaneously lobbied President Wilson and Congress to pass a woman suffrage Constitutional Amendment. In the 1910s, NAWSA’s membership numbered in the millions. The second group, the National Woman’s Party (NWP), under the leadership of Alice Paul, was a more militant organization. The NWP undertook radical actions, including picketing the White House, in order to convince Wilson and Congress to pass a woman suffrage amendment. In 1920, due to the combined efforts of the NAWSA and the NWP, the 19th Amendment, enfranchising women, was finally ratified. This victory is considered the most significant achievement of women in the Progressive Era. It was the single largest extension of democratic voting rights in our nation’s history, and it was achieved peacefully, through democratic processes. !