Essays Tagged: "Susan B. Anthony"

Elizabehth Cady Stanton - discuss her contribution to the women's movement and the difficulties she encountered.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony were all leaders of the early women's rights movement. Select one of these women an ...

(2 pages) 109 0 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Title:Women Suffrage Background Brief Description: Background information on how women recieved the right to vote.

the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at ...

(1 pages) 99 1 3.4 May/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

How women gained their rights.

untless numbers of people, mainly women, who are to be thanked for these changes. One such woman is Susan B. Anthony, "The most famous of American Suffragists" (Eisenberg 108). Another such a woman wa ... leave if an employee has a sick family member, a newborn, or has recently adopted child ("Women's").Susan B. Anthony said in her final speech "The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not s ...

(5 pages) 159 0 3.9 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

How did the Nineteenth Amendment come to be part of our Constitution and why was it significant? A history of the female right's movement and the importance of the 19th amendment

eriority of women. Four years later, the women's rights activists gained the much-needed support of Susan B. Anthony. At a convention in 1852, Anthony spoke out against the injustices that women were ... es as men. The big debate was over whether voting was a privilege of being a United States citizen. Susan B. Anthony chose to interpret the law as so, and was criminally prosecuted for illegally votin ...

(6 pages) 156 1 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Susan B. Anthony and what she did for the female race.

We the PeopleSusan B. Anthony's "Women's Right to Vote" speech in 1873 started a long, drawn out campaign for wom ... helped to build this Union. Therefore, women should have the same rights as men. No questions asked!Susan then goes on to talk about the words used in national and state constitutions. Anthony argues ... claim, so what do they do now?From this we can see that, by using logical appeals to the audience, Susan B. Anthony opened the eyes of our country to the injustice being done to women. These logical ...

(3 pages) 91 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Susan B. Anthony.

On February 15, 1820, Susan Brownwell Anthony was born into a Quaker family in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, lat ... ing a newspaper, speaking out about what she believed in and by working on the Underground Railroad.Susan B. Anthony did many first in her time that were very new to her and to the nation. In 1837 Sus ... e U.S. It dealt with the abuses of women and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands. In 1849 Susan gave her first public speech for the Daughter's of Temperance. Then in 1852 she attended her f ...

(2 pages) 64 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay is about the women's rights movement starting in 1948 all the way up to 1920. It gives an overview of the groups and people involved, and some major milestones they accomplished.

ghts movement owes its success to the brilliant techniques used by Women's rights activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, people who single-handedly brought the issue of Women's ... nd, created social awareness for reform in the area of woman's rights. Members of the NAWSA such as Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul advocated Militant Marches, Demonstrations, an ...

(2 pages) 65 0 3.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Womens rights in the US throughout history.

since the SenecaFalls Convention in 1848. So after 72 years it finally happened.Like her own peers, Susan B. Anthony had to endure very hostile audiences who made funof her when she had given speeches ... ade funof her when she had given speeches on temperance, abolition, and also women's rights. In 1851Susan had met up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and organized the NWSA in 1869. In 1872, alongwhit her ...

(1 pages) 84 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay was written for a semester exam to exemplify how valuable a tool an education is to aid success in today's world. Untitled

good about yourself. The three pieces of literature that I chose for this essay are "The Anthem", "Susan B. Anthony", and "Frederick Douglas". The preceding literary texts exemplify my thesis on the ... rfect example displaying the value of success an education holds, look no further than the story of Susan B. Anthony. Susan grew-up well-to-do house and was properly educated, quite rare for the time ...

(4 pages) 57 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

In what ways did the early nineteenth-century reform movements for abolition and women's rights illustrate both the strengths and the weaknesses of democracy in the early American republic?

iculties, women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes.Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began to work together on women's rights and one of the ...

(2 pages) 66 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Susan B. Anthony.

ghts that belong to the citizens of the United State be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever"-Susan B. Anthony. 1876Susan B. Anthony broke the barriers of equality in her confidence to step forw ... the late 1800's, she has proven herself to be great leader. Through her accomplishments and actions Susan helped start a revolution which would change society forever. Growing up in a devout Quaker fa ...

(2 pages) 52 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination

ases in the fight against discrimination. Pioneers such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Susan B. Anthony have made progress in this fight. One would be completely ignorant to say discrimin ...

(9 pages) 411 0 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Victorian Society

te 1960's and early 1970's that the whole outlook on women changed. If it wasn't for women such as: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Tubman women would be living in a world revolvi ...

(9 pages) 102 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Feminism in the US

omen's Conference was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It was there, three years later, that Susan B. Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had organized the 1848 convention. Together they le ...

(7 pages) 294 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Susan B. Anothony (included is an obituary from the New York Times)

Susan B. AnthonyCautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social ... and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.- Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Where she was b ... s in history.In 1872, in an attempt to claim that the constitution already permitted women to vote, Susan B. Anthony cast a test vote in Rochester, New York, in the presidential election. She was foun ...

(7 pages) 42 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Women's right

me to sit in the company of all these important and significant people of this century. My name is Susan B. Anthony and I have dedicated my life to fight for women rights in the workforce and in soci ...

(3 pages) 56 0 2.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

A Biography about Susan B. Anthony

IntroductionSusan Brownell Anthony is the topic of my paper. In the first half of the paper you will learn a lit ... paper you will learn a little bit of background about her. You will learn about the influences that Susan's parents had on her. Also you will learn about Susan's childhood, and you will have some insi ... 's childhood, and you will have some insight to her education. I am also going to talk about Susan B. Anthony's job as a teacher. You will see some of the struggles that Susan fought against. Y ...

(7 pages) 92 1 3.3 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Gender Bias Expressed in Women's Literature

hip, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race." --Susan B. Anthony (www.feminist.com)Throughout history there has been an unwritten law of gender role ...

(9 pages) 183 1 4.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

As Needs Evolve, the Law Revolves: A Study of Discrimination Laws in the United States

ases in the fight against discrimination. Pioneers such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Susan B. Anthony have made progress in this fight. One would be completely ignorant to say discrimin ...

(10 pages) 182 1 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Women's Rights in the United States in the 1700s

job in a factory was a dream that was never thought impossible. But, as years passed, women such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Blackwell began t ... time, helped by a few women. These women were Abigail Adams, Catherine E. Beecher, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. These women did not gain their rights just because of these four women, but these ...

(7 pages) 40141 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History