Historical Examination Of The Women's Rights Movement

Women have been struggling to gain equal rights for centuries. Obviously, the most well-known right that women have gained is the right to vote under the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, women have worked equally hard to gain other rights. The women’s suffrage movement has drastically changed by challenging gender norms and advocating for equal voting rights. The goal that they were trying to accomplish was winning their very own right to vote. However, 150 years ago the American Equal Rights Association (AREA) was reportedly wrecked by a disagreement over the 4th amendment. Most women during this time were made up of the middle class of society. Woods. Also during this time, most women depended solely on their paychecks,

Historical Examination of the Split between Black Rights and Women’s Rights Association, 1866-1869 (Brown 1). Later on, the two movements came to a disagreement; they were so stuck on one thing that they aint got to acknowledge the legitimacy of the goal. By the late 1860s, the leaders of the two movements disagreed completely on the relationship between their movement and the existing political structure, particularly the Republican Party. They also held divergent opinions on why either women or Black people needed to vote and when enfranchisement should occur. By the end of the decade, they would not even acknowledge the legitimacy of each other’s goals, Hampson continued. (Brown 1). They finally calm down after 3 years of whether they should support the 15th Amendment, it says in the text Ather only three years, the AERA dissolved over heated fights about whether to support the 15th Amendment (Brown 3). In May 1869 Douglass wanted AERA to support the amendment; in the text it states that in May 1869, Douglas argued that the

The women’s rights movement was harsh because of the Fifteenth Amendment. I know this because the text it states: Indeed, the women’s rights movement divided acrimoniously in 1869 largely over the issue of whether or not to support ratification (Spruil 2). They were mad when the 14 & 15 Amendments did not turn out how they wanted in the text it says that They were extremely disappointed when the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not provide universal suffrage for all Americans, but extended the franchise only to black men (Spruil 2). Succeeded in getting the issue before the United States Supreme Court, but in 1875 the court ruled unanimously that citizenship did not automatically confer the right to vote and that the issue of female enfranchisement should be decided within the states (Spruil 3). Anthony was the most important person in the Women's Suffrage Movement. I know this because in the text it states Anthony, one of the faces of the women's suffrage movement in America, was arrested in Rochester in 1872 for casting an illegal vote there. Though Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote in America, people left a symbolic tribute -- their "I Voted" stickers on her headstone (Mook 1). Anthony was so important to the