Suffering for Suffrage 18481919

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Suffering for Suffrage1848-1919

• A brief outline of the struggle for the right to
  vote

By Scott Marsden with help from Nancy Case
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Introduction Activities

• Students in pairs
• Journal Who are the important women in your
  life? What do they do that makes them important?
• Report out to one another and then share answers
  and write on board.
• Describe a time when women were treated unfairly
  in our society. Who can give me examples?
• Write on boardstudents copy examples in
  notebook.

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Transition to Through Activity

• Personal example my mom and high school
  counselor
• Solicit reactions to moms story
• While passing out materials (level-like study
  guides) say, Now we are going to take a look at
  how women fought for equality in our country.

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Suffrage Vocabulary

• Suffrage
• Divorce
• Abolitionist
• Advocates(n)
• Sentiments
• Radical

• Conservative
• Priority
• Justified
• Resistance
• Tyranny
• Ratification

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Sheltering Strategies

• L1 and L2 give an outline of presentation with
  almost all text. Some words left blank. Cloze
  activityfill in blanks with some words.
  Draw/sketch pictures.
• L3 and L4 Take notes.
• All ELL/mainstream students Write captions to
  pictures.

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Womens Rights Convention Seneca Falls -1848

• Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
  Mott
• Sought better divorce laws, education, property
  rights
• Split over women voting-considered too radical
• Declaration of Rights and Sentiments modeled on
  Declaration of Independence

Lucretia Mott (Library of Congress)
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Division in Womens Movement over 14th and 15th
Amendments

• Split between abolitionists and suffrage
  advocates over 14th and 15th Amendments
• 14th Amendment (1868) - Citizen defined as male,
  not female.
• 15th Amendment (1870) - Gave vote to
  African-American men, but not to women.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  thought that women should take priority over
  former slaves

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vs.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (Maryland State Archives)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton And Susan B. Anthony
(Library of Congress)
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Rival Groups Formed

• 1869 - American Womens Suffrage Association
  founded by Lucy Stone
• AWSA more conservative - supported 14th and 15th
  Amendments
• National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
  founded by Anthony and Stanton
• NWSA more radical - wanted universal suffrage
  (16th Amendment)

Lucy Stone (Library of Congress)
Why did Anthony and Stanton not want to give the
vote to African-American males? Were they
justified?
Susan B. Anthony (Library of Congress)
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1872 The Great Vote-In

• 1872 - Great Vote-In (Anthony, Sojourner Truth,
  others) tried to vote in Presidential Election.
• Sojourner Truth was turned away.
• Arrest and trial of Susan B. Anthony
• Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God
  -Anthony

Sojourner Truth Library of Congress
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National Association of Colored WomenNACW Formed
In 1896

• Mary Church Terrell
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Harriet Tubman
• Margaret Murry Washington
• Fanny Jackson Coppin
• Charlotte Forten Grimke

Ida B. Wells (Library of Congress)
Mary Church Terrell (Library of Congress)
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Apotheosis of Suffrage - 1896

• Apotheosis making into a god
• Why is George Washington wearing a skirt?
• What point is the artist making about the
  suffrage movement?

George Yost Coffin
(Library of Congress)
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Suffrage ParadeNew York City - May 12, 1912
(Library of Congress)
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Alice Paul

• Employed radical tactics she learned from
  Emmeline Pankhurst in Britain
• Hunger strikes, picketing, chaining themselves to
  buildings
• Organized 6-days a week demonstrations in front
  of White House in 1917, leading to arrests
• Hundreds arrested and thrown in prison
• Iron-Jawed Angels force-fed in prison

(Library of Congress)
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Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for
Liberty? (1917)Library of Congress
Pretend you are one of these women. Write a
quick journal entry about how you feel.
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19th Amendment and Beyond

• 1918 - Anthony Amendment adopted in House
• 1919 - Amendment passed Senate
• August 21, 1920 - Ratification completed
• 1923 - Alice Paul and the Womens Party
  introduced Equal Rights Amendment
• 1972 - ERA passes Congress
• 1982 - ERA fails to gain approval of 2/3 vote of
  states.

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Beyond Activities

• Go home and ask an older female relative, Do you
  think women are treated equally with men?
• Ask her to give an example or tell a story of an
  time when she was treated unfairly
• What do you think are womens roles in society
  today?