Women From the 19th Century Through the 21st

Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Amelia Earhart, Dolores Huerta &

Hillary R. Clinton. Each has made it possible for the

other to succeed.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY19th Century

Background

• Anthony grew up in a strict Quaker family as one of eight children.

• Anthony was a precocious (gifted) child and was educationally advanced and independent.– Learned how to read and write by the age of three

• Taught at an academy for females and later became headmistress– Position had traditionally been reserved for men

Movements Anthony Was Involved With

• Temperance Movement – Dealt with women and children who suffered abuse

from alcoholic husbands/fathers– One of the first expressions of original feminism– Anthony, along with other women formed the

Daughter of Temperance society

• Anti-slavery Movement– First organized, radical movement in which women

played prominent roles– Served as an agent

• Women’s Suffrage Movement

Women’s Suffrage Movement

• Crusade began in 1872

• Led group of women to ballots in Rochester, New York to test the right to vote– Anthony was arrested and tried two weeks later

• Worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Clara Barton

Anthony’s Speech on Women’s Right to Vote

Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote.

It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny….

And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.

Women’s SuffragePast to Present

• Women voted for first time in 1920– 19th Amendment ratified August 18, 1920

• Today, women– continue to vote– hold powerful positions in government

Clara BartonThe 19th & 20th Century

Her Speech to the Soldiers• “Soldiers, you have called me here to speak to you of the war we

lived together. I have done it. Now I have a word to you… • You glorify the women who made their way to the front to reach

you in your misery, and nursed you back to life. You called us angels.

• Upon this, other women claimed the right and took the courage, if only to go to an army camp and drag the wounded men out of a trench and try to save them for their families, their country.

• And, soldiers, for every woman's hand that ever cooled your fevered brow, stanched your bleeding wounds, gave food to your famishing bodies, or water to your parching lips, you should bless God for Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances D. Gage and their followers.”

Accomplishments• Founder of the American Red Cross, and first

President• Nurse in the Civil War– However she was a nurse from age 11 to 88

• Traveled the world nursing wounded soldiers.• Made the first list to relocate soldiers missing in

action.• Activist for Women’s Suffrage, & Civil Rights.– Her and Susan B. Anthony spoke at the same Washington

DC Convention for Women’s Suffrage.

Even when she was told no to opening up an American chapter of the Red Cross she didn’t give up and continued to fight.She worked closely with other countries and sent out pamphlets to the public to pass the Geneva treaty, which was the first step to forming the Red Cross.

The Women Who Went to the Fields – by Clara Barton

The women who went to the field; and prayWhat did they go for? Just to be in the way!--

They'd not know the difference betwixt work and play,What did they know about war anyway?

What could they do? of what use could they be?They would scream at the sight of a gun, don't you see?...

Imagine their skirts 'mong artillery wheels…They would faint at the first drop of blood, in their sight…

And the man liveth not who could say to them nay; They would stand with you now, as they stood with you

then, The nurses, consolers, and saviors of men.”

“

Effects on the Present • Clara Barton was a nurse her entire life, and

served as a nurse in many different wars, and fought for her position in these wars.

• She fought for women to be closer to the action in wartime to nurse soldiers.

• Her passion to help the men at war and their families led her to create the first list to relocate soldiers who went MIA and she appointed to do so by President Lincoln.

• She started the American chapter of the Red Cross

• Clara Barton made it possible for women to be in the front lines of war and to do their part at wartime

• She saw the benefits to the country by forming the American Red Cross, which has helped millions of people today

• She was a crusader for the rights of all races and sexes, and her perseverance made it possible for others like her to succeed

Amelia EarhartLate 19th to the 20th Century

Accomplishments

• An Aviator and Pioneer • An author of “ The Fun It” • An Individual who

conquered dreams• Established clothing for

flying • Helped organize the Ninety

Nines

Her Breakthroughs

• First woman too– Fly across the Atlantic as a

passenger and solo– Make a solo round-trip around

the U.S.– Set women’s speed records

• First person too– Fly solo to Honolulu, Hawaii to

Oakland, California– Fly solo from Los Angeles,

California to Mexico City

CourageBy Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price which life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release

From little things;Knows not the livid loneliness of fear

Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy you can hearThe sound of wings.

How can life grant us boon of living, compensate, For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate

Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice we pay

With courage to behold resistless day And count it fair.

Women’s Past and Present

• Amelia was a courageous woman of her time• She opened the doors for other women as they

did for her • She lived through an era where other women

were creating opportunities • Women were seeking equality and

independence • She benefited from women who stood by their

opinions and beliefs

A Legendary Woman

• Gained admiration from others• Helped create a better environment for women• A role model who was fearless for herself and others

Dolores Huerta20th & 21st Century

Accomplishments• Huerta started her career as an

organizer in 1955. She was founding of the Stockton chapter of Community Service Organization (CSO). The CSO battled segregation and police brutality, organized voter registration rights, and pushed for improved public services.

• Then in 1960, after recognizing the needs of farm workers, Huerta organized and founded the Agricultural Workers Association. She became a fearless lobbyist of in Sacramento.

• In 1962 Huerta and Cesar Chavez launched the National Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers (UFW).

• Huerta showed her lobbying and negotiating skills when the Aid For Dependent Families, an unemployed and disability insurance for farm workers in the state of California.

• Huerta was an instrumental organizer in the 1966 grape strike.

• She was not only an organizer she also administered the contracts that established the first health and benefit plans for farm workers.

Huerta was able to succeed in a world of men.

Huerta’s Quotes      “Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.”       “Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.”     “Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!”

      “Pride and roots is what it is. It definitely does not mean separation or nationalism in the sense that we want to go back to Mexico.”

• Huerta has been heavily criticized because she is not the “Ideal Chicana”.

• She has married 3 times and she had 11 children.

• Most of the time she had to leave her children with family members because she was not able to take care of them.

• Huerta was not able to give her children a stable life.

• She was an independent women

“Sí se puede!” • At the age of 80, Huerta

continues to educate workers and has other side projects as well.

• She also has her own foundation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The 20th and 21st Century

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

Born 1947, involved herself in politics in the 1970s first as a republican, and then after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. speak, she became a democrat…

She benefits from what women of the past fought so hard for. Because women of the past fought for women’s suffrage, political rights, labor rights, etc.

Hillary is married, yet still works on her career as a politician…

She isn’t at home only doing household duties and raising her family, she still has a career

POLITICAL CAREER• She served with U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee

on migrant workers, and became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal

• She was elected as Senator of New York in 2000• She ran against President Obama for the Democratic

Presidential nomination in 2008, and lost– but she won more primaries and delegates than any other

female candidate in American history• As of today she serves in President Obama’s Presidential

Cabinet as Secretary of State

Hillary has accomplished a lot in her life time, but has yet to accomplish more. She is the ideal women that women of the past have fought so hard to become.

She is a woman that many women in the U.S. can relate to. She is a wife, mother, and has a career of her own. She is a woman who now sits in the position that was once only known to man. Hillary is setting the future for women who come after her.

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