The Struggle for Equality, By: Amanda Johnson & Rebekah Mason [free novels .txt] 📗

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Throughout history, women have not had the same rights as men. Women did not have the rights to vote, own property, or keep the money they earned.They usually could not hold the same jobs as men.This began the movement for women’s suffrage, or the rights of women.




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In 1848, a convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York. The convention was organized by two women: Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Most of the people in attendance agreed that women deserved their own political identities. They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments which, like the Declaration of Independence, listed why they deserved better treatment and how they intended to change their rights.




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Mott and Stanton continued to have these conventions, which grew every year. Stanton joined Susan B. Anthony to form the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869.

The goal of the NWSA was to gain voting rights for women. By 1893, Colorado allowed women to vote in state elections, and more states followed in the next 20 years.




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After 72 years, the House of Representatives and the Senate pass the federal women’s suffrage amendment, which is then sent to the states for ratification. The 19th amendment to the Constitution was passed on August 26, 1920. Women now had an equal vote in elections.

When American men went overseas to fight in World War II, their jobs were left empty. Many women took the men’s places during the war, and some worked in factories to produce the weapons needed to win the war.

After the war, many women left their wartime jobs, but their employment during World War II made it easier for women to be employed later in history.



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There are many famous women in history. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was vital to her husband’s presidency. She held press conferences, wrote a news column and fought for child welfare and more equal rights laws for women and other minority groups.




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Marie Curie was a scientist, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize , and the first person to ever win two Nobel Prizes for her work with radioactivity.
Though she won her last Nobel Prize in 1911, she is still the only woman to win two.



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Susan B. Anthony’s passion for women’s rights began when she was not allowed to speak at temperance, or anti-alcohol rallies. Before this, she and her family were active abolitionists.

She campaigned for the employment of women in the teaching profession, and equal education for boys, girls, and children of ex-slaves.

In an 1872 election, Anthony and three of her sisters were arrested for voting. She appeared before every Congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask them to allow women to vote in elections with men.



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Hillary Clinton began her career as a lawyer. She worked in various law firms and on presidential campaigns during the 1970s and 1980s. She became first lady of Arkansas in 1979, and first lady of the United States when her husband Bill was elected President in 1992.

During these years she was an active advocate for child health care reform. After her husband served two terms as President, Clinton decided to run for Senate in the state of New York. She served in this position until 2007, when she decided to run for President.

She did not win the Democratic Party nomination, but President Barack Obama nominated her for the position of his Secretary of State, which she accepted.



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Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful women in the world. She worked as a television host in Baltimore from 1876 to 1984, and then began her own morning show in Chicago.

Steven Spielberg cast her in his movie The Color Purple, and she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role. Winfrey began The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 with an audience of 10 million people.


She started her own production company, Harpo Productions, and used her company to produce the show. Winfrey will end the show in 2011 to run her own network, the Oprah Winfrey Network.

She has been called the most influential woman of her generation, and the richest African American of the 20th century. She gives and raises millions of dollars to charities that support child rights and the victims of major disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.

For Additional Information:

http://www.surfnetkids.com/go/150/about-the-history-of-womens-rights-in-america/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/women-pioneers/job.html

http://www.history.com/topics/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

Publication Date: 03-06-2011

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Dedication:
Dedicated to our professor Ms. Pierce, for encouraging us to be aspiring history teachers.