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The Rise Of Women's Suffrage In America

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First woman to serve in Congress, Jeannette Rankin, stated “How shall we explain to them the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country.” The 19th amendment was a major step for women’s rights in America. Many years of hardships led up to the breakthrough that serves as a reminder to all those who fought for their rights. There were many key people and organizations that fought for the woman’s suffrage movement. They took part in protest, strikes, and conventions for the right to vote. The rise of woman’s suffrage started to kick off in 1800’s. According to Jone Lewis article “A History of the Seneca Falls 1848 Women’s …show more content…

In “ MARCHING FOR THE VOTE: REMENBERING THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARADE OF 1913” by Library of Congress the march came in Washington came when the suffrage movement needed it. For more than sixty years women had been fighting for the right to vote. Progress had been made in the recent years with six western states granting woman suffrage. Every year since 1869 delegates from NAWSA arrived in the nation’s capital to present petitions asking for the right. Debate on the issue had never even reached the floor of the House of Representatives despite millions of signatures collected. The first party to pledge itself the task of equal suffrage in 1912 was Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party. The Progressives lost the election. In November 1912 suffrage leaders were thinking of now means to ensure victory. Alice arrived at NAWSA convention and returned to the U.S. fresh with ideas for American movement. Alice was asking to organize a suffrage parade in Washington at the time of president’s inauguration. Doing the parade around that time would ensure maximum press attention. When Alice promises to raise funds and title of chairman of Congressional Committee NAWSA accepted her offer. In December 1912, Alice moved to Washington and discovered that the committee moved or died. Alice was still determined and made first meeting of her new committee on January 2, 1913. Alice and others started raising funds by working nonstop for two months. This emerging committee had organized and found money for the major suffrage parade by March 3. The event’s total cost was $14,906.08, which was a princely sum. Programs each cost more than

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Minnie had finally achieved what she had spent so much time fighting for but this accomplishment was great and it was a milestone for women in the state of teas but it wasn’t enough for Minnie she set her sights out for something bigger and better which was an amendment that would grant women throughout America the right to vote. In order to achieve this Minnie made arrangements with United States Senator from Texas Morris Sheppard in 1917 for a conference in his Washington, D.C. office for women to state their perspectives on the proposed suffrage amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Minnie and NAWSA lobbyist Maud Wood Park, who would become the first president of the League of Women Voters, initiated a campaign for constituents to flood the offices of their representatives with telegrams in favor of passage. The United States House of Representatives passed the first version of the Nineteenth Amendment on January 10, 1918, but it failed in the United States Senate.

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Females from all over America were waiting for more than a hundred years for the day that they can finally vote. A New York Times report said, “The half century struggle for women’s suffrage in the united states reached its climax at 8 o’clock this morning, when Bainbridge Colby, as a secretary of state, issued his proclamation announcing that the 19th amendment had become a part of the constitution of the United States.” Woodrow Wilson was president at the time and women stood outside his office protesting to have this right. Woodrow made a speech on this day saying “I for one believe that our safety in those questioning day, as well as our comprehension of matter that touch our society to the quick, will depend upon the direct and authorization participation of women in our counsels. ”(Wilson)

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Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One method women used to earn support is that they organized a parade in Washington, D.C., the same day the president was coming into town so that there was large crowds. Many of the people in the crowd were men who, along with drinking also disagreed with the right for women to vote. They began to yell then even throw objects at the women walking in the parade. Eventually, the police walked away giving the men the opportunity to attack.

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The Congressional Union soon became the National Woman’s Party, and together with the NAWSA, they lobbied Congress for passage of the amendment. During the 1916 presidential election, the women campaigned vigorously against Woodrow Wilson’s refusal to support the women’s suffrage amendment. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns we not the only women suffrage advocate there were many. Rose Schneiderman was an advocate she released a statement saying “ Women in the laundries stand for 13 and 14 hours in the terrible steam and heat with their hands in hot starch. Surely these women wont lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in the box” (Doc 7).

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(Dubois, 189) For instance, African American women also began their suffrage by forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1903. " …with links to the Democratic Party and the labor movement, A Women's Henry George Society, and a female wing of William Randolph Hearst's Independence League." (Dubois 189) This quote presents several of representatives that women had done to the whole

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The biggest winner of the whole event is Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Both of them put almost their lifetime concentrating on women’s right that heavily effects on United States as well as other countries afterwards. Without those helps from those associations and suffragists, perhaps United States still struggle with women’s legal rights

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The nineteenth amendment, gave women the right to vote. A right known as women 's suffrage. Women citizens did not share all of the same rights as men. The demand to vote became a centerpiece meaning woman not having the right to vote stood out to president Wilsons attention. Most people didn 't pay mind to women not having the right to vote.

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The movement faced significant opposition and was not just a movement for middle-class women, but also for working-class women. The suffrage movement inspired other social and political movements and showed that social change was possible. Women also continued to face discrimination and harassment in the workplace and in other areas of their lives. Despite the challenges they faced, the suffrage movement continued to grow, and in 1919, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, granting women the right to vote. The amendment was ratified in 1920, and women across the country were finally able to participate in the political

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Adding on to other limitations, women almost had no freedom in their marriage. Before the women’s rights movement, when a woman is married the “husband and wife are one person” but “that person is the husband” (Doc 7). Once a woman is married, her rights and property were governed by the husband. Married women could not make wills or dispose of any property without their husband’s consent to do so.

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This verdict brought concern to suffragists and called to attention their desperate need for a constitutional amendment that stated no one could be denied access from the ballot on the basis of gender. Preparing for the 1916 vote, women began hosting parades and marches. Others walked from New York to Washington and took road trips across the

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Thank you, Millicent Fawcett, for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies which Millicent leads with grace and dignity. Some of you may know me and some of you may not, but I am Clementine Forest one of 3000 women suffragists who has marched here today, the largest march ever occurred, for the cause of women 's suffrage. I am here to represent and express the importance of women receiving the right to vote. Unfortunately, the London weather wasn 't on our side with the presence of heavy rain throughout our march from Hyde Park to Exter Hall, but this reinforces that nothing will stop women from protesting their right to vote. As you know we have been gathered together as one, today on February 9th, 1907, the day in which Parliament is open once again for the coming year.

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