Since the birth of our nation, all citizens trying to obtain a goal had to do something to attain it. Citizens of colonized countries had to organize themselves and fight by means of revolution to attain freedom. Slaves who longed for equality had to fight for their freedom. Employees who aspired for better terms and conditions had to form unions that went on strikes and picketed before their rights were recognized. The fight for equal rights caused decades of struggle and massive publicity caused by and in favor of the leaders and its members so that their goal would finally be achieved. The Woman’s Suffrage movement also would not have succeeded had they not woke up and realized that their rights were being violated. One of the first and perhaps most important woman to start the fire of Woman's Rights was Ms. Lucy Stone.
Lucy Stone was born August 13, 1818 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Her parents were crop farmers Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews. She was the sixth of nine children. Lucy questioned the set roles of male and females from a young age. Her parents tried to impart these traditional roles on her through both their abolitionist commitment and their Congregationalist faith. She often found herself distancing herself from the Congregationalist church after its leaders criticized abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké for unfeminine behavior in speaking to mixed audiences in churches during their 1837 tour of Massachusetts." Although Lucy did believe in her parents controversial stance on antislavery.
Even though she was smarter than her brothers, she was discouraged from educating herself. But Lucy was unafraid of rebelling against her parents. Having watched her older brothers attend colle...
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...be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. and even though she wasn't there to see it she was the one that led the storm of change to each state watering the tree of equality.
Lucy Stone is known today for many things, among them being the first woman to graduate from college in Massachusetts, one of the first women not to change their name after marriage, the first woman to appeal before a body of lawmakers and forming The Woman’s Journal and The NWSA. Women all over the United States owe much to the work of Lucy Stone. In the history of Woman’s Rights, few can activists can compare with the determination and success of Lucy Stone. While many remember Susan B. Anthony for being the most active fighter for Woman’s Rights, perhaps Lucy is even more important. With out her it would have taken much longer to achieve Woman's Votes.
A key figure in both the women’s rights and abolition movements, she brought them from lectures to full organizations. Stone died before women earned the right to vote, nevertheless, she was still a major influence. Nowadays, women have much more rights because of efforts put in by many reformers, including Lucy
Since the beginning of the 17th-century and earlier, there has always been different perspectives on women 's rights. Men and women all over the world have voiced their opinion and position in regard to the rights of women. This holds especially true in the United States during the 18th and 19th century. As women campaigned for equality, there were some who opposed this idea. There was, and always will be a series of arguments on behalf of women 's rights. Anti-women 's rights activists such as Dr. John Todd and Pro-women 's rights activist Gail Hamilton argued intelligently and tactfully on the topic. There were many key arguments made against women’s rights by Dr. John Todd, and Gail Hamilton 's rebuttal was graceful and on par with her male counterpart. Let 's examine some of Dr. John 's arguments against women 's equality.
For many years people fought and struggled for change to make the world a better place. People struggle for change to feel equal by actively fighting for human rights, they urge people to abide by the rule of law to accomplish these equal rights, and they fight for a change in the future to ensure that the work they have done is not destroyed by the younger generations. Thanks to the hard work of our ancestors, the freedom that we are granted benefits many people around the world today. If it were not for their struggle we would not have some of the privileges we have today, such as the right to vote. Alice Paul and Ida B. Wells are both exemplary examples of advocates for the women’s suffrage. They marched and protested for the right to vote which eventually led to the 19th amendment. It took a very strong leader to accomplish this goal, a person that believed in the rule of law and a change for the future. These women are just two examples of people who were self motivated for a change. Many other people struggled for a change in what they believed in,and if they fought hard enough their efforts
During America's early history, women were denied some of the rights to well-being by men. For example, married women couldn't own property and had no legal claim to any money that they might earn, and women hadn't the right to vote. They were expected to focus on housework and motherhood, and didn't have to join politics. On the contrary, they didn't have to be interested in them. Then, in order to ratify this amendment they were prompted to a long and hard fight; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the 19th century, some generations of women's suffrage supporters lobbied to achieve what a lot of Americans needed: a radical change of the Constitution. The movement for women's rights began to organize after 1848 at the national level. In July of that year, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) and Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), along with Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and other activists organized the first convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls, New York. More than 300 people, mostly women but also some men, attended it. Then, they raised public awar...
Up until and during the mid -1800’s, women were stereotyped and not given the same rights that men had. Women were not allowed to vote, speak publically, stand for office and had no influence in public affairs. They received poorer education than men did and there was not one church, except for the Quakers, that allowed women to have a say in church affairs. Women also did not have any legal rights and were not permitted to own property. Overall, people believed that a woman only belonged in the home and that the only rule she may ever obtain was over her children. However, during the pre- Civil war era, woman began to stand up for what they believed in and to change the way that people viewed society (Lerner, 1971). Two of the most famous pioneers in the women’s rights movement, as well as abolition, were two sisters from South Carolina: Sarah and Angelina Grimké.
Lucy Stone was born August 13, 1818, she grew up in a time where slavery was in full swing and women were to be seen not heard. Lucy Stone made enormous efforts to change America and the belief that blacks and women were not equal to white men on every level. She helped pave the way for the rights we have now. She wanted to have equal rights for all and equal pay for men and women.
Without a doubt, Lucy Burns played a key role in women's suffrage. During a time when women did not have the right to vote and when Woodrow Wilson sent the country into WWI, Lucy Burns, a women's rights activist, protested toward the treatment of women by picketing the White House, participating in parade confrontations, and giving speeches. After seven years of protesting, Lucy Burns and the National American Woman Suffrage Association convinced Woodrow Wilson to propose an amendment to the constitution which grants citizens, regardless of gender, the right to vote. Truly, Lucy Burns changed political power for the better.
This section on women's history will show the events that led to the suffrage movement and what the outcome was after the movement, plus how those events are involved in today's society. The women of the post suffrage era would not have the ability to the wide variety of professions were it not for their successes in the political arena for that time. In the early 1900’s when women were barred from most professions and limited in the amount of money they could earn, a group of suffragists led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started to develop the women into an influential and powerful leaders of this country. The original women who started the suffrage movement had nothing to build on form former women groups. Therefore these women were the pioneers of the women's movement. The next era of women took the prior teaching of Anthony and Stanton and took it one step further with forming groups of women who not only talked about women's rights but also what they could do for country as well. They final step in the suffrage movement was the making of allies with powerful men who could help them take what they have learned from the earlier groups and combine that with the new concepts to form a powerful gender.
Lucy Stone rose to prominence during the 1920’s abolitionist and first-wave feminist movements. Strong-willed and bold in her beliefs, Stone was among the first women to receive a Bachelor’s degree in the state of Massachusetts. Along with getting a college degree she was known to use her maiden name as a married woman--an unbeknownst concept at the time. At the First National Women’s Convention, Stone delivered her career defining speech entitled, “Disappointment is the Lot of Women”, that speech would later solidify her status as the definitive orator of the reform movement period. Lucy Stone drew tremendous inspiration from her discriminatory experiences while getting her education and working as a teacher, the works of William
Throughout the world, women’s rights has been an immense struggle for hundreds of years and is still a present issue today. Lucy Stone was one of many women fighting for these rights and addressed the topic in her speech. Stone was a political activist and public speaker, two occupations very rare for women at the time, and gave this speech in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York at the first women’s rights rally to ever take place in the United States. Her use of rational and logical appeals in her speech “Disappointment is the Lot of Women” successfully persuades the audience to support women’s rights.
But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote,” She said that because she fought for women’s rights, and she thinks that women should have the freedom to do the things that men have the freedom to do but she believes that their true place is home caring for a family. Lucy Burns was an american suffragist and women’s right advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her and her close friend Alice Paul formed the National Woman’s Party. Lucy Burns impacted the citizens of the United States because Her and Alice Paul co-organized the famous 1913 suffrage parade, She formed the Congressional Union with Alice Paul, and She and Alice led a group of women out of the NAWSA in 1917.
The 19th century is the time of the strong female character and female protagonist. Bronte exemplifies this concept as she develops Lucy’s personality to be conflicted between wanting a companion and also wanting to be completely independent of others (Lorber). During the first few chapters, Lucy does not take the spotlight in her own story. She makes it a point to focus on the other people she lives without interacting with them entirely. Rarely does she take part in conversation. This leads the reader to believe that she was unhappy living to be in a household to serve another such as Paulina. The young child “occasionally chatting with [her] when [they] were alone in [their] room at night” (22) is the only character that really pays Lucy any attention and yet this attention is short and half lived. Lucy and Paulina share no more than a few words at a time sporadically throughout the first few chapters. This allows her to do as she pleases without the “annoyance” of another trying to keep her from where she wants to
When we discuss about the civil right movement, we always consider about the some great people like Martin Luther King. But women play a really important part in the civil right movement. I read the poem that was wrote by Mary Ware, some sentences made me think a lot. She said that: “Then all she’s got to do is sit there, quiet, till the next moment finds her ---- and she open her mouth to ask ‘Why do you push us around?’ And his answer ‘I don’t know but the law is the law and you are under arrest.’ ”
Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century women began to vocalize their opinions and desires for the right to vote. The Women’s Suffrage movement paved the way to the nineteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution that allowed women that right. The Women’s Suffrage movement started a movement for equal rights for women that has continued to propel equal opportunities for women throughout the country. The Women’s Liberation Movement has sparked better opportunities, demanded respect and pioneered the path for women entering in the workforce that was started by the right to vote and given momentum in the late 1950s.
... Victorian values. She is supposed to be submissive and delicate, and she does attempt to do what her cousin asks and remain ladylike. Towards the middle of the story Lucy has obviously been thinking a lot about her future and she begins to speak her mind but is usually shut down by Cecil or other Victorian characters. By the end of the novel, Lucy has realized Cecil will never treat her as an equal and she leaves him.