Born on August 13, 1860 , she had 6 brothers and sisters. Her parents names are Susan and Jacob Moses . She was a self-taught sharpshooter. She was from a poor family so she went to go work at an infirmary (which is an orphanage) and that is where she went to school and learned how to sew.
During the winter months she spent them with her grandparents. Amelia attended a private college and graduated high school from Hyde Park High School in Chicago Il. (Gale). Amelia Earhart set the women’s
Mary Ann Hopkins came from a suburbs of Boston, where she attended private school with her little sister. Whenever they go on family trip, they go for adventure and explore. She was always curious about the world ever since she was a little girl. She was a smart girl and like to learn new things. As a result, she taught herself how to knit, crochet, and sew.
She was born in September 25, 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was educated by private tutors with her brother, but didn’t learn Greek or Latin, since she couldn’t go to college. This was unusual to have a classical education for women in her time, due to the lack of women’s rights. She had 2 older brothers and 3 younger siblings. One of her brothers was James (Jemmy), was a role model for her
Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State, she had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. She collected supplies for black regiments during the Civil War and immersed herself in advocating for freed people during the Reconstruction period. Isabella escaped slavery in 1827, one year before mandatory emancipation in New York State, by fleeing to a Quaker family, the Van Wageners, whose name she took.
Ellen McConnell was born in Scotland in 1791. The war had started when she was with her son David near their home near Birch Coulee. A little after the war had started, a couple Dakota broke into her house capturing her daughter and her daughter’s baby, and killing her other grandchild, Thomas Brooks, her son-in-law, and her son-in-law’s father. She even had to watch her own husband’s death, but she wasn’t bothered at all. To avoid the war’s danger, Ellen and her son, David, met up with another one of Ellen’s children, Joseph, after walking twelve miles to Fort Ridgely where they stayed till both battles there were over.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, 12 November 1815. She was the 8th children out of 11 children. Her father Daniel Cady was a judge and also a prominent Federalist Attorney. Her mother Margaret Livingston Cady was descended from Dutch settler. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Alice Paul Alice Paul, born on January 11, 1885, was a very powerful woman in the overcoming of Women’s suffrage in the United States. Paul went through countless struggles before she was truly heard by American citizens. Paul carries a legacy for acting in a non-violent way. Alice Paul’s greatest and most impactful contribution was the organization of the Counter-Inaugural Woman’s Suffrage Parade in 1913, because this was the event that began her legacy as a strong, non-violent, and powerful role as a leader for women’s suffrage.
Her Aunt and uncle took her in. At that point she went to high school for 1 semester but left because she couldn't handle the stress. After trying high school she got a job offer as a receptionist. Soon after that she got a degree as a certified medical assistant. She then got married to Robert Brown, and had a daughter and son.
Lucretia Mott was a women’s rights activist. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on January 3, 1793. Lucretia was a daughter of Quaker parents and attended a Quaker boarding school at the age of 13 in New York. She grew up as a leading social reformer and became a teacher assistant at the boarding school. Women's rights became the most important thing in her life.
Emma Willard was born on February 23rd 1787 and died on April 15th 1870. She was an activist for women’s rights and education. Throughout her life she worked in many different schools and even founded the first women’s school for higher education. She travelled the country and world, advocating for school for girls. She was principal at Middlebury Female Seminary for 2 years before she got tired of the material that they taught and decided to open her own school for girls in 1814.
She wasn’t in much of her father's life, and after Henry VIII died she was sent to go live with her step-mother Catherine Parr. She was given an excellent education while away from her father. She excelled in her studies and was taught by famous scholars. she was able to speak 5 languages frequently and was known to be spectacularly gifted.
Women and the Abolition movement of the Nineteenth Century. Although the Women’s Rights Movement started as a fracture in the Abolition Movement of the early nineteenth century, neither movement would have made nearly as much headway without women at their core. Most women involved in the Abolition Movement in its beginning were wives, daughters and sisters of prominent members of society in the Northern states. They were women who organized and formed local anti-slavery societies where they lived.
Later, she moved to Tutshill, where she attended Tutshill Church of England Primary School until she changed to Wyedean Comprehensive, where her mother worked. After she graduated, she went to Exeter University and studied one year at Paris. During her childhood, she
She was not well educated, but loved to read and after work, would attend mill school
