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.Abused wivesexisting laws.Perhaps most impor- were advised to endure their treat-tant, the Progressives had establishedment because there was no legalthe basis for further social reforms,recourse.many of which would take place dur-Elizabeth s cousin Gerrit Smithing the 1930s and beyond.had a great influence on her life.Itwas at Smith s house where she wasSee also: Addams, Jane; Child Labor;introduced to the abolitionist move-Hull House; Muckrakers; Riis, Jacob;ment.Although the Cadys ownedRoosevelt, Theodore; Sinclair, Upton.slaves, it was not until Elizabeth metfugitive slaves and antislavery activ-FURTHERREADINGists that she took an interest and ac-Dudley, William.Social Justice.FarmingtonHills, Mich.: Greenhaven Press, 2005.tive role in abolitionism.It was alsoStanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815 1902) 77*'through Smith that she met Henry the causes that impel them toStanton.In 1840, Elizabeth and Henry such a course.were married.Elizabeth insisted that We hold these truths to be self-the ceremony be altered, as she would evident: that all men and womennot promise to  obey her husband.are created equal; that they areendowed by their Creator withSPEAKING OUTcertain inalienable rights; thatThe Stantons traveled to London toamong these are life, liberty, andattend the World Anti-Slavery Con-the pursuit of happiness; that tovention.Stanton was outraged whensecure these rights governmentsa number of women were deniedare instituted, deriving their justentry to the convention, notablypowers from the consent of theLucretia Mott.This led her from thegoverned.abolitionist movement to the wom-en s rights movement with Mott.SheEven among women, the ideabegan speaking out in favor of wom-of equal voting rights for womenen s rights and led a campaign inwas controversial, although the con-New York for married women to bevention eventually approved thegranted property rights.declaration.In the summer of 1848, StantonA second women s rights conven-again met with Lucretia Mott, neartion was then held in Rochester, NewSeneca Falls.They decided to orga-York.Along with Susan B.Anthony,nize the first women s rights conven-Stanton traveled the country givingtion on July 19.Stanton became thetalks before legislatures and conven-recognized leader of the movementtions.She wrote articles, essays, pam-with her presentation of the Declara-phlets, and speeches.Stion of Sentiments.Modeled after theDuring the Civil War (1861Declaration of Independence, Stan-1865), Stanton again took up the ban-ton s paper outlined the injusticesner of abolitionism.However, whensuffered by women in the Unitedactivists seeking equal rights forStates and called for equal votingblacks would not support equal rightsrights for women.The Declaration offor women, Stanton abandoned herSentiments begins:efforts to help them.In 1869, Stanton helped to foundWhen, in the course of humanthe National Woman Suffrage Associ-events, it becomes necessary foration.Compared to the Americanone portion of the family of manWoman Suffrage Association, Stan-to assume among the people ofthe earth a position different ton s organization was more radical.from that which they have hith- Eventually, the organizations mergederto occupied, but one to which in an effort to consolidate power.the laws of nature and of nature s Stanton remained more radicalGod entitle them, a decent re- than others in the women s rightsspect to the opinions of mankind movement.She wrote essays onrequires that they should declare religion and strove to prove that78 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815 1902)*'Jeanette Rankin (1880 1973)Born in Montana in 1880, Jeanette She won, becoming the first womanRankin graduated from Montana State elected to the U.S.Congress.University with a Bachelor of Science In Congress, Rankin continued todegree in biology.She worked as a work for women s rights.In 1917, sheschoolteacher and briefly as a social opened the debate in Congress on theworker.By 1910, Rankin had become Susan B.Anthony Amendment, whichinvolved in the woman suffrage move- would give all women the right toment, or the campaign to give women vote.This ultimately became the Nine-the right to vote.teenth Amendment, which was rati-Rankin moved to New York and fied by the states in 1920.worked for the New York Woman Suf- Rankin remained in Congress forfrage Party.In March 1913, she was one term, and then, in 1939, ran forone of thousands of suffragists to Congress again.This time whenmarch in a suffrage parade in Wash- elected, she was one of eight womenington, D.C.Rankin then returned to in Congress.She served just one termMontana to help women in that state because her antiwar stance made hergain the right to vote, which was unpopular.For the rest of her life,granted in 1914.Two years later, Rankin worked for peace and wom-Rankin ran as a Republican for a seat en s rights.She died in 1973 at the agein the U.S.House of Representatives.of 92.scripture could support women sSuffragistsrights as much as it had been used todeny those rights.She wrote The People who worked for womanWoman s Bible as a treatise on this suffrage, or the right to vote.Moststance against the oppression of or- suffragist leaders were women, butganized Christianity.a significant number of men alsoStanton worked for women s supported this powerful movement.rights throughout her life.She died The start of the woman suffrageon October 26, 1902.Women did not movement and the first American suf-gain the right to vote until 1920, 18 fragists are usually traced back to theyears after her death.Seneca Falls Convention for women srights in Seneca Falls, New York, inFURTHERREADING1848.It was the first women s rightsStanton, Elizabeth Cady.The Woman s Bible:convention held in the United States.A Classic Feminist Perspective [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]