Women’s Rights WomenJake Miller & Ryan Coleman

Cumberland Valley School District

Sojourner Truth – 1 of 3 Real name is “Isabella

Baumfree” Slave in NY state Husband beaten to death Forced to marry & bear

children to a diff. slave Escapes a year before NY

outlaws slavery First black woman to win

in court – sues former owner for rights to her son

Sojourner Truth – 2 of 3

Garrison prints her autobiography

Very bold woman – once showed her “lady parts” to someone who accused her of being a man

Goes on a speaking tour Most famous speech is

“Ain’t I A Woman?”

S. Truth – “Ain’t I A Woman” Speech That man over there says that women need to be helped into

carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3 PA Teacher & Quaker

Minister Began as abolitionist Joined women’s rights

movement after: 1st Learning men paid

3x as much

2nd Being segregated at World’s Anti-Slavery conference in Britain

Lucretia Mott – 2 of 3

Met Garrison & Elizabeth Cady Stanton at World’s Anti-Slavery convention

The 2 would create the first women’s rights convention – Seneca Falls, 1848

While there, Frederick Douglass became a strong supporter of women’s rights

Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 1 of 3

NY Activist Dad a judge and Congressman

who “taught her like a man” Graduated tops at her school,

but not allowed to go to college b/c she was a woman

Married & traveled US Met & inspired by major

abolitionists and women’s rights activists You name them, she met them!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 2 of 3

Moved to Seneca Falls in 1847 for husband’s poor health

Bored, so begins to read & write Inspired by TJ’s Dec. of

Independence; writes Declaration of Rights & Sentiments for women’s rights

After Civil War, will oppose black voting rights because women were EXCLUDED

Will inspire Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 3 of 3

Susan B. Anthony – 1 of 3

NY Teacher & Quaker Family was wealthy; lost it all

in Van Buren’s Panic of 1837 Befriends F. Douglass in 1847 Met E.C. Stanton in 1851 Began wearing fancy dresses,

but stopped b/c men focused more on that than her ideas

Her speaking at 1853 teachers’ convention was huge issue

Susan B. Anthony – 2 of 3

Would break from abolitionist movement when she saw sexism in male abolitionists

Formed the Women’s Temperance Movement

Arrested for voting in Election of 1872 (because she was a woman)

Would have the legacy of organizing the core of the women’s rights movement

Susan B. Anthony – 3 of 3