Women’s Movement in Equality and Suffrage from North to South

Women’s Movement in Equality and Suffrage from North to South

Cynthia O’Brien

His206: United States History II (HIR1541A)

Dr.: Wylie Tidwell

November 9, 2015

         Women were enslaved by their husbands and society they had no control of the reproductive parts nor a say in society. Women were identified only by their husbands they had no identity of themselves. Exploring the fight for women to have equal rights through different women’s movement groups all women of all races and all colors from the North to the South had a voice to bring the women of the 21st century equal rights to voting and be able to stand next to their male counterpart even in the presidential election.

     With women’s involvement in the Suffrage movement, one of the more different landscapes of the revolutionary movement was coast-to-coast with the resourcefulness growing guidance took by females, black and white, on a diversity of frontages. Most of these women are traditionalist women enthusiastic to move beyond the internal compass directed (Congress, 1912). There were many women as well as African-Americans such as Lugenia Burns Hope and Selena Sloan Butler, worked through women’s clubs community associations. Essentially in black, charitable and civil administrations to raise assiduousness and lobby legislators for the reforms enthusiastically support (Congress, 1912).

     Not all women were for women suffrage there were anti-suffrage supporters although they confronted a losing skirmish. With women working at the settlement houses attending to the disadvantaged among immigrant fundamentalists through classes particular in domestic activities  (Barnes, L. & Bowles, M., 2014). The settlement workers were in hopes once females particularly the conformist women retain the right to vote. There would be more of an ethical strength with the social workers movements against child labor and for the reorganization of urban sanitation and industrial working conditions (Barnes, L. & Bowles, M., 2014).

     With the pro-Civil War abolition movement, advocates of women’s voting rights gain strength after 1870. The previous year women suffragists had divided into groups Lucy Stone and Julie Ward Howe, formed the American women suffrage affiliation that operated toward purchase the right to vote state-by-state (Gallman, 2015). The women staffers Association stayed absent to divisive issues the association engrossed on the incremental push for women suffrage (Congress, 1912). Women argued that they were citizens of the United States and with came citizenship came the right to vote. There was an early success in 1869 when Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote. After it became a state in 1890, Wyoming also had some of the earliest female officeholders. Before the gilded age, other Western states followed suit: Idaho, Utah, and Colorado granted women the right to vote in statewide elections (Barnes, L., and Bowles, M. 2014, Section, 3.2).

    The more natural women suffrage advocates, led by longtime activists Elizabeth candy Stanton and Susan B Anthony, formed the national women staffers Association. Also organizing in 1869, this group criticized both the 14 and the 15th amendment leaving their exclusion of women in citizenship, and voting rights was a mistake seeing suffrage as an important first step to achieving political and civil equality with men, these women argued that voting was a natural right. However in 1817 the fifteenth amendment franchises (Congress, 1912). Suffrage in Black and White women dominated the suffrage movement since its beginning educated and free from paid work, they volunteered for reform efforts like’s suffrage, which they described as municipal housekeeping. (Zahniser, 2015).

     On June 21, 1917, Lucy Burns of Brooklyn and Katherine Morey of Boston were detained in front of the White House (Zahniser, 2015). Their crime? Hampering traffic they had mounted them selfs on Pennsylvania Avenue’s sidewalk with a streamer exploring President Woodrow Wilson to take action (Zahniser, 2015). However, it had only been two months after America confirmed war on Germany (Zahniser, 2015). Though there are other Americans that seem to think it was disloyal to many people perhaps even treasonous. The 1917 White House protesting campaign, arranged by Alice Paul, a resilient American women suffrage Association will prove to be the longest battle through history with the right to vote and earning equal grounds with their male counterparts. (Tribune, 1910)

     Alice Paul organization endeavored to invite an appropriate modification that would gain women’s voting rights. Alice Paul organized five- thousand women in 1913, to rally in the capital in D. C. on the day before the introduction of the new president Woodrow Wilson. She called this organization the Silent Sentinels this was the first group to have taken it to the White House (Tribune, 1910). The association stood silently with flags that commanded the right to vote (Tribune, 1910). Alice was detained for blocking traffic and sent to the lockup where she made herself undernourish, so the police involuntarily feed her. Public protest was disturbing and ferociously demanded her release. Exploring the fight for women to have equal rights through the American women Suffrage Association (Tribune, 1910).

      Controversial back in time and for 50 years after that, the 1917 protesting is now observed by historians as a good illustration of the power of political protest, and Alice Paul is seen as its brilliant strategist (Zahniser, 2015).With the 19th amendments passing in 1920, it could be contributed to the white house protesting  (Zahniser, 2015). This is a major event for women even though it had taken seventy-five years. Women have made a stance in society and in the political realm with having the authority to move mountains to further the equality that all women in the United States deserve (Tribune, 1910).