HIST BC 2567x Lecture 9: Women in 20th Day 9
6 Oct 2016
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Parallel of seemingly contradictory developments - white men more suffrage, everyone else less. It changed : why did seneca falls become the myth that it became, an origin story for political change, this is where it began, why it began. Believe that suffrage movement would be stronger: 1872 - first woman ran for president, shirley chisholm - first woman to run for president on a major party ticket, 1972. California, wyoming, new york, etc: right to vote was a state granted right, state by state basis v federal basis. They actually used things like hunger strikes, civil disobedience; theywere forcibly fed on hunger strikes. Mississippi - white supremacy would be strengthened by women"s suffrage; suggesting white racial power. Also opposed voting right for uneducated people: second generation of suffragist, not hardcore believers in superiority of white anglo saxon race like anthony / Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the.
