WOMEN’S WOMEN’S RIGHTSRIGHTS

By: Lindsey Sarah

INDEXINDEX• A. OVERVIEW OF WOMEN’S

RIGHTS

• B. SOJOURNER TRUTH

• BIBLEOGRAPHY

Overview of

women’s rights

Seneca Falls Seneca Falls ConventionConvention

• A convention held for women’s rights.

• Held at Seneca Falls New York, July 19th and 20th 1848.

• Declaration of sentiments

Limitations of womenLimitations of women• All women’s limitations

• Married women’s limitations

Anti-suffragists Anti-suffragists argumentsarguments

• Differences of men and women

• Morality differences of men and women

Predictions and fears Predictions and fears of anti-suffragists if of anti-suffragists if women got the votewomen got the vote

• Predictions

• Fears

Wyoming gives women Wyoming gives women the votethe vote

• 1890

• The voting bill

TimelineTimeline• Events from 1866-1872

1912-19171912-1917• 14 states give women the right

to vote

The 19th amendmentThe 19th amendment• When it was passed

• What it started

Sojourner Truth

Her Life as a Slave

• Childhood as a slave

• Adulthood as a slave

Her life as a famous preacher

• Her travels

• Washington D.C.

What kind of a person she was

• What she did

• What she believed in

“Ain't I a women” a speech by

Sojourner Truth• Summary of the speech

• Reading of the speech

Bibliography The arguments of anti-suffragists.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/Anti.html, 10/23/98

This link tells the predictions, fears, and arguments of anti-suffragists.

Darlene Clark, “Black Women in America.” Madison,Wisconsin

April 1993

It’s a book that gives a biography on black women that made a difference in America. It also tells what that did to mean so much to people.

History of the suffrage movement.

http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/hisindx.html, 10/23/98

This link gives a short summary of the history of the suffrage movement.

Bibliography con’t

“Sojourner’s Life”

http://www.sojournertruth.org/history.html, 10/23/98

It gives a timeline on her like and tells the important things she did and things that happened to her.

Why a women’s rights convention?

http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html, 10/23/98

This site is about the Seneca falls women's rights convention.

Women's rights chronology.

Http://.rochester.edu/SBA/time.html, 10/23/98

This site is a timeline of women's rights from 1866 to 1920

Bibliography con’t

Miriam Sagan, “Women’s Suffrage.” San Diego, California

Lucent books Inc., 1995

The chapter I used from the book was about when Wyoming gave women the right to vote.