Women's Rights Movement Essay

Women’s suffrage has always been a major conflict in the United States, but also all over the world. Generations of women have taken action to protest, fighting for what they believed in; feminists. The struggle of not superiority but equality and respect as any other male was the message activists of the women's rights movement was trying to convey. Although many of the women were well educated, they were still were still denied the right to vote. The Women’s suffrage Movement took several years to make its way through and successfully in 1920 women won voting rights. It first began with the very first women’s rights convention in the United states at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Fall, New York, 1848. The convention was organized by Elizabeth …show more content…
“Other suffragists, however, including Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, argued that once the black man was enfranchised, women would achieve their goal”(“History of Women's Suffrage”). The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), was born as a result, their mission was to push for the ratification of enough state suffrage amendments to force Congress to approve a federal amendment The NAWSA had had played a huge role for the future due to their organizational groundwork; passing of the 19th …show more content…
As women were never given the right of being treated equally as men, several brave women had decided to take charge and do something in order of getting the government to notice them. Through the hard work from the NAWSA and NWP of protests and some illegal acts taken place, the two were major organizations that had influenced women to follow, stand out, and speak their mind. Although the biggest victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement approvement of the 19th amendment was met, the Equal Rights Amendment was not-is-not passed. Overall, the tireless activists of the past in the Women’s Rights Movement created glorious history and improved the lives of the future women's generations to