Suffragettes

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

- Womens suffrage was a social, economic and politic movement that promoted the extensión of suffrage (right to vote for women) also called “equal suffrage” (aboiling all gender differences in the right to vote).

- “equal suffrage” is different to “universal suffrage” (aboiling race difference), and it wasnt the first to happen because in that time it was considered torevolutionary.

FIRST SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

- It all started in the county of Seneca in New York 1848. Convention of two days to discuss the injustice againt women.

HOW IT HAPENNED?

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton travelled to London with her husband who was a delegate of the society against slavery in 1840. - In the reunión the members did not want to accept participation of women delegates and aftera huge controversy all of the women were told to sit on the back part of the room without saying a word.
- Was there where Elizabeth met one of the women delegates Lucretia Mott. Both of them felt outraged with the way man treated them.
- After 8 years they organize their convention to conciousness people about women rights.
- On July 11th and 14th was their first appareance in a localnewspaper of Seneca announcing the convention that was going to be held the days 19 and 20 of that month.
- The announcement said that on the first reunion, women were the only ones invited, and men could attend but just as listeners. The second was made for a general audience.
- Elizabeth wrote a manifest called “The declaration of feelings” inspire in the declaration of Independence.
- She said thewomen right to suffrage was an obligatory point of discussion.
- Her husband wasnt agree, so he did not attend to the convention.
. Stanton was also looking for the right of high school education, profesional life, the right to own properties and to divorce.

1848 CONVENTION TAKING PLACE IN SENECA FALLS

- Stanton said that the cause of the meeting was to discuss: “Rights and socialconditions of the women”
- She introduced the “Declaration of feelings” arguing that all men and women are created on equal conditions.
- Part of the declaration "…all men and women are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Besides the right to vote, the document mentioned different ways inwich men opress women; legal discrimitation specially towards married women, rights of worker women, education, and the religious aspect. Declaration concludes demanding for the same rights and privileges of men.
- 100 people signed the document. 68 women and 32 men.

- In 1951 Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They both fight together for the women rights.
- Anthony fight for the right to vote onthe congress since 1869 to 1906, while Satnaton get involved on the reform to the laws refered to divorce.

- The suffragists' approach had changed.
- Instead of arguing that women deserved the same rights and responsibilities as men because women and men were "created equal," the new generation of activists argued that women deserved the vote because they were different from men. They couldmake their domesticity into a political virtue, using the franchise to create a purer, more moral "maternal commonwealth."




100 YEARS LATER (In America)

- World War I slowed the suffragists' campaign but helped them advance their argument nonetheless: Women's work on behalf of the war effort, activists pointed out, proved that they were just as patriotic and deserving of citizenship asmen, and on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified.
- On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
- On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right...