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Women's Suffrage Movement
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Essay on the Women's Suffrage Movement
Historically women were held as inferior to men and subject to the control of a male. As women protested and demanded equal rights, it became recognized that society benefited from equality between the sexes.
The early women’s right movement began with the struggle for educational, business and professional opportunities. From there the feminists fought for women’s suffrage.
As an outgrowth of the anti-slavery movement, the women’s right movement was organized in 1848. Early female pioneers in the movement included Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe.
In 1869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was formed to obtain a woman suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. The same year the American Woman Suffrage Association was formed to work for amendments to state constitutions. The two groups merged in 1890 to form the National American Suffrage Association.
The group worked tirelessly to obtain the right to vote for women. Finally in 1920 the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the suffrage amendment, was ratified and enabled women to vote in the presidential election that year.
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