Women's Suffrage
For NaBloPoMo the theme is 'voting.' So, for this post I thought I would talk a little bit about Woman's Suffrage.
The battle for women's right to vote started with the National Women's Convention in 1848. The convention was brought about because two women that attended the Anti-slavery Convention in 1840. They were able to attend after much opposition, but had to stay in a segregated area behind a curtain and they were not allowed to speak on any of the issues or to speak at all really. So, basically they couldn't be seen or heard while they were there.
At the Seneca Convention many sentiments were passed, but the one's concerning voting saw opposition until an ex-slave and newspaper owner, Frederick Douglas, spoke on behalf of the women's right to vote sentiment.
The battle did not end there! Many newspapers wrote articles riduculing the convention and a few of the people that had signed the sentiments wanted their names removed. The battle went on until 72 years later the 19th Amendment finally passed, giving the women the right to vote. This struggle was truly a battle. Women were riduculed and beaten for their stand on this issue. If you would like to read more concerning Women's Suffrage please go HERE and HERE.
1 comments:
Thank you thank you thank you for posting about Women's Suffrage. I don't think that many women realize what the women who came before us went through to guarantee a woman's right to vote. I don't think that many people period realize that African American men had the right to vote before caucasian women (any woman)!
This is a very important election year and I hope that women everywhere stand up, vote and thank the women that devoted their lives to ensure that we would have this right...Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stton, Carrie Chapman Catt and my personal hero Alice Paul.
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