Transcript Ain`t I a Woman?

Women’s Suffrage
Movement
When the United States
Constitution was written, only
white men had the right to vote.
Women were not allowed to vote
under the law. Women also did not
have many other rights such as
the right to own property or to be
educated for certain jobs.
As time passed, many people
came to feel that this was unfair
and that women should have the
same rights as men in our country.
Women’s suffrage (right to vote)
became an organized movement in
1848 at a convention in Seneca
Falls,New York.
World Antislavery Convention – London, England
(1840)
· Motivated by the unequal treatment of women at
the convention, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton decided to hold a women’s rights convention.
Left:
Elizabet
h Cady
Stanton
Right:
Lucretia
Mott
Seneca Falls
Convention – Seneca
Falls, NY (1848)
• Delegates at the
Seneca Falls
Convention demanded
the
following:
- equality for women at
work, school, and in
church
- the right to vote
This is a copy of the
announcement placed
in the Seneca County
Courier advertising
the Woman's Rights.
After enlisting
Lucretia's husband,
James Mott, to chair
the meeting, they began
to draft a "Declaration
of Rights and
Sentiments". Through
the eve of the
Convention, Stanton
continued to write and
revise the "Declaration"
which she modeled after
the Declaration of
Women’s Suffrage Parade in
New York City
Discrimination Against Women
· Women could not vote or hold political office.
· A husband controlled his wife's wages and property.
Famous Abolitionists AND
Women’s Rights Activists
· Lucretia Mott
· Elizabeth Cady Stanton
· Angelina and Sarah Grimké
· Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
“Election Day!”, 1909
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was
born February 15, 1820
in Adams, Massachusetts. She was
brought up in a Quaker family with long
activist traditions. Early in her life she
developed a sense of justice.
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
In 1851 Stanton met
Susan B. Anthony and for
the next fifty years they
worked together. Stanton wrote and gave
speeches that called for the improvement
of the legal and traditional rights of
women, and Anthony organized and
campaigned to achieve these goals.
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott helped to organize and call
together the first women's rights
convention in Seneca Falls, New York in
July of 1848.
Sojourner Truth
Truth became a speaker on
women's rights issues after
attending a Women's Rights
Convention in 1850.
“Ain't I a Woman?”, by Sojourner Truth
Women's Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851.
…That man over there says that women need to be
helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to
have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps
me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me
any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look
at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered
into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a
woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a
man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well!
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children,
and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I
…Then that little man in black there, he says women
can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ
wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from?
Where did your Christ come from? From God and a
woman! Man had nothing to do with Him…
…Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old
Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.
The suffrage movement did not
have much success in the beginning
and it would be almost 80 years
before U.S. laws would be changed.
Many women and men worked very
hard to bring about these much
needed changes in the law.
Here are a few important people
from the suffrage movement:
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Catt was president of the NAWSA when
the 19th amendment giving women the
right to vote was passed in 1920.
Esther Morris
Esther Morris was
the first woman to
hold public office in
the United States.
She was a judge in the
Wyoming Territory.
These women and other men
and women across the country
worked long and hard to
convince the government and
the people of the United
States that the laws should be
changed.
One thing
that had to be
done, was to
let the people
of each state
vote on the
idea.
The state of Tennessee was the
36th state to approve the law.
Their approval gave the amendment
the majority it needed to become a
law.
Finally after years of hard work,
the 19th Amendment was added to
the Constitution of the United
States in August of 1920.
Amendment XIX
The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account
of sex.
The End
(but really just the beginning)