As the beginning of the womens Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years, organizations such as the National American womens Suffrage Association and National Womens party would form, creating a national movement. Yet, it was women in every community who lead the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspan cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause, from a pro suffrage newspaper publisher in oregon, to a 23yearold montana and arrested for protesting on the white house lawn. You will learn why western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement, and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her son would help lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. We begin in syracuse, new york, where author Carol Faulconer talks about one of the movements lesser known figu
Generates debate on what is models and what is not. Come from. Im British Military welcome to. Its good to have youre with us there is anger in bangor theres often news of the gang rape of a woman in the countrys salt went public the woman was stripped beaten and assaulted by a group of men who also filmed the crime and made the video public student organizations of activists demonstrated in the capital dhaka against the incident they are demanding amongst other things speedy trials in rape cases and Capital Punishment for rapists authorities have so far at least 6 people in connection with the case. Need to spoke to some of those participating in the protests this is what they said. We have come out today to give a strong answer to those across the country who are playing with women and childrens lives in the name of sexual harassment. And identity. And despite being molested today in a public bus by the attendant i have come to protest how much more do we have to bear we dont want su
Posts using the hashtag 19 suffrage stories. All of these details that are on our website at archives. Com. Lets begin our discussion today. My first guest is miss susan b anthony. Hello, miss anthony. Im feeling very energetic today. Wonderful, thank you. My first question is how did you get involved in the Womens Suffrage Movement . I didnt start my life as an agitator in the Womens Suffrage Movement. It kind of grew gradually overtime. It began when i first was made to understand that married women had no legal rights in this country. They could not own property or keep their earnings and i was taught to believe that women and men were equal and should have equal rights in my quaker household, we were treated equally. This was a very cruel comeuppance to me when i was taught about that. It was going to be a long, slow process to change those laws. I became interested in the temperance movement. We thought perhaps if we could take the alcohol out of the hands of abusive husbands, thi
Welcome to todays program on the 19th amendment and womens equality day. My name is dorothy dority. For the next hour, i will be moderating our discussion with three key figures in the fight for womens right to vote. As you can see im celebrating by wearing my suffrage sash. I have a centennial pen that i ordered from the National Archives gift shop. Another way we can celebrate as by sharing our stories online. We have a number of animated gifs and stickers so you can post that on your social media posts using the hashtag 19 suffrage stories. All of these details that are on our website at archives. Gov women. Lets begin our discussion today. My first guest is miss susan b anthony. Hello, miss anthony. Im feeling very energetic today. How are you . Wonderful, thank you. My first question is how did you get involved in the Womens Suffrage Movement . I didnt start my life as an agitator in the Womens Suffrage Movement. It kind of grew gradually over time. It began when i first was made
We have this thing about covering womens faces because its either too cute to fall and you dont want to get that attention or because. Families want to not show their womens faces and thats also comes from ownership of female body and Patriarchal Society is men feel like they have about right to tell a female in their family to cover her face or to cover her hair or her. And so i took the kind of to the next level and just removed my face so its became something of like lets say like a modern but our. Struggle to be a strong woman says. Target to be successful womens and we try so hard but theres a lot of people do try to bury us because baseball is paying but we are not good enough they dont want us to be in control they dont want to us to be successful. I dont go and bury myself by playing in their underwear it beats my chest that every time i breathe i can be seen the cracks of the clouds the choice to make creating. Scary. This is how i feel really about life. And im out of our cit