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Chapter 17: Rights

By: Sam Seitz. Chapter 17: Rights. Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Miami Herald news columnist Father was the newspaper’s editor Ran an article on woman suffrage on her third day on the job. Florida’s Suffrage Movement. Florida Equal Suffrage Association (FESA)

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Chapter 17: Rights

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  1. By: Sam Seitz Chapter 17: Rights

  2. Marjory Stoneman Douglas • Miami Herald news columnist • Father was the newspaper’s editor • Ran an article on woman suffrage on her third day on the job.

  3. Florida’s Suffrage Movement • Florida Equal Suffrage Association (FESA) • Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs (FFWC) • Fewer than 800 Florida Suffragists representing 139,000 Florida females. • Male Chauvinists scoffed at women that thought they were capable of handling a male’s responsibilities.

  4. Antisuffragists Arguments • Equate the female franchise with black voting • Sixty-three percent of Florida’s potential female voters were black. • Considered suffrage as a conspiracy of northerners • Douglas printed a front-page photo of women suffragists with babies beneath a bold caption, “ To Prove All Suffragists Are Not Spinsters”

  5. Racism • Douglas was proud of her father’s stand against the Ku Klux Klan. • She advocated for better treatment of Blacks, but accepting them as equals was a different thing. • Douglas called for the creation of a school for Black Women that would train them to be “ competent domestic servants” • Many social reformers weren’t willing to give Black people equal rights.

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