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The Long Road to Equality

The Long Road to Equality. Mr. Stimson’s History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Suffrage – the right or privilege of voting; also sometimes called “franchise”. Suffragette - a female activist who advocated suffrage for women. Suffrage Has Been Expanding Throughout US History

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The Long Road to Equality

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  1. The Long Road to Equality Mr. Stimson’s History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

  2. Suffrage – the right or privilege of voting; also sometimes called “franchise”.Suffragette - a female activist who advocated suffrage for women.

  3. Suffrage Has Been Expanding Throughout US History • 15th Amendment (1870) – African-American males won suffrage. • 19th Amendment (1920) – Women won the franchise. • 26th Amendment (1971) – People between ages 18 and 20 won the right to vote.

  4. The Seneca Falls Convention On July 19, 1848 the first woman's rights convention held in the United States met for two days in Seneca Falls, New York. As a result, it is often called the birthplace of the feminist movement.

  5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Stanton's role was that of thinker and writer for the women's movement in all its phases.

  6. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, is often credited with initiating the organized woman's rights movement in the United States.

  7. At the same time, Elizabeth Cady Stanton managed a household of seven children.

  8. Susan B. Anthony often went to Stanton's home and helped take care of her children while Stanton did her intellectual writing.

  9. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

  10. Anthony was the organizational and tactical genius of the suffragist movement, traveling thousands of miles throughout the United States and Europe, and giving 75 to 100 speeches per year on suffrage and women's rights for some 45 years.

  11. At three years of age she was already able to read and write. In 1826, despite her natural intelligence, a teacher refused to teach her long division due to her gender.

  12. Susan B. Anthony was an activist for the causes of temperance (the outlawing of liquor) and abolition (the ending of slavery).

  13. In 1851 she attended a New York State temperance convention and attempted to speak. She was rebuked and told, "The ladies have been invited to listen and learn and not to speak." She immediately formed a female temperance society.

  14. NWSA In 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association, an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. Anthony was vice president of the NWSA until 1892, when she became president.

  15. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 Presidential Election. She pled not guilty, asserting that the 14th amendment entitled her to vote because it provides that all "persons" (which includes females) born in the US are "citizens" who shall not be denied the "privileges" of citizenship (which includes voting).

  16. At the trial, Anthony made her famous On Women's Right to Vote speech, which asserted that casting her vote in the previous presidential election was not a crime but the legal right of a United States citizen.

  17. Susan B. Anthony Found Guilty! On June 18, 1873, Anthony was sentenced to pay a $100 fine. She responded to the judge, "May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did pay the fine, and the government never pursued her for nonpayment.

  18. Anthony displayed her skill by appearing before every Congress between 1869 and 1906 on behalf of women's suffrage.

  19. In 1979 Susan B. Anthony was honored as the first real-life American woman on circulating U.S. coinage with her appearance on the Anthony Dollar.

  20. Ida B. Wells In 1891 Ida B. Wells launched a nation-wide anti-lynching campaign after the murder of three black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee.

  21. In 1910, Wells helped form the NAACP. • She founded the first Black women’s suffrage organization in 1913. • In 1930, she ran for the Illinois state legislature, one of the first black women ever to run for public office.

  22. The Three Strategies Used To Achieve Women’s Suffrage • Lobby state legislatures to grant women the vote. By the early 1900s, women's groups had won the right to vote in 12 states. • Court cases to test the 14th Amendment. • National amendment to the US Constitution.

  23. Opponents of Suffrage The primary objection to woman suffrage is that it would add an enormous army of unqualified voters to the huge mass of them that vote now. – Life Magazine November 15, 1906

  24. Proponents of Women’s Suffrage

  25. The Nineteenth Amendment In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

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