What Can I do? Plenty, Sister !

'' So long as the women are not free, the people are not free! '' If men can be free, why can't women? We both live in the same planet, why can't we share it the same way...we are equal!

Harry Osborn, Two More Bright Spots on the Map,
Maryland Suffrage News (14th November, 1914)

During the 1800's women started to rebel and protesting for what was right and fair. Women protested for their right to vote, right to work, right to speak up, etc. It was not easy for them but they fought until their last breath until finally acquiring their freedom and equality. Nowadays, still women are not  completely treated equally but we've come a long way.

In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mot started The National Woman Suffrage Association after traveling to London for a World Anti-Slavery Convection. Both women were mad because they were denied the right to speak. The NWSA were against the 14th & 15th amendments because they left out women. Also it did promote easier divorce and end to discrimination.

In 1890, the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) joined the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and it became the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) led by Cady. 

The NAWSA went through the entire US campaigning for women's right to vote. The NAWSA were successful. Colorado was the first state to gain the right to vote for women. Many states followed as well. In the end, in 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed. It granted the right to vote for women all over US.




The National American Women Suffrage Association

Until this day, women have been treated equally thanks to those women who in the past had the courage to stand up and take a stand. Though there are still some places that discriminate women, so far it's been fair. I admire women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Lou Rogers, Tearing off the Bonds Judge Magazine, 19th October, 1912