GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lucretia Mott, The Yellow Wallpaper, Jane Addams
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Lecture 14 - 02. 28. 17 - feminisms and international women"s movements. 1840: elizabeth stanton and lucretia mott meet at world anti-slavery convention in london where mott is refused a seat. 1848: mott and stanton decide to arrange a convention at seneca falls; stanton draws up. Declaration of sentiments all of whose resolutions unanimously accepted by 300 participants, including 40 men, but women"s suffrage (right to vote) 1845: frederick douglass wrote a narrative of his life. 1870: 15th amendment extends voting rights to black males most black women support though it will delay women"s suffrage. 1880-1930: african americans subjected to terrorism with 3,200 lynchings threat posed by black males to the sexual purity of white women stereotypes black women as immoral in contrast to their white sisters. Wells = journalist and editor, joins jane addams, anti-lynching. Sexual segregation made new organizational developments for women (ex: women"s. Christian temperance union becomes largest u. s. women"s group by turn of century)
