Informative Speech On Women's Rights

“In the future there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” (Sandberg, Sheryl). So I’m going to tell you a little something about Women’s Rights. It all started in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott was striving towards women's equality, which led to the Women’s Rights Convention. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone forming the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA). And in 1920 women were finally able to vote. In 1848 at Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s house, two women, Lucretia Mott and Stanton, working with Mary Ann McClintock and Jane Hunt, sent out for a women’s conference. The conference was to be held on the Nineteenth and Twentieth of July, in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls. At the

The Association did not include racial issues only because it was a women’s association, all the members were all women. During the meeting Stanton said she only wanted the educated to vote. Douglass took her to task of criticizing black male voters.

The 1868 ratification of the 14th amendment angered many people, they were up for the idea as long as women couldn’t do it. When the new association was formed it was because the women’s rights activists felt betrayed and left to form their own organization. The new organization is the National Women’s suffrage association, which was only allowed to have female members, with females in office, men could be in the organization as long as they weren’t fully involved.

Both woman and black suffrage were on the ballot in Kansas. The republicans decided to campaign against women’s suffrage. Stanton and Anthony turned to a wealthy democrat, George Train, to continue the fight of women’s suffrage in Kansas. Train supplied lots of funding for the NWSA , Douglass had to cut the funding from Train because Douglass thought it was wrong because Train opposed black