African American Women

African American Women

Afeon Stapleton-Jackson

HIS 204

Instructor: O’Connor

March 18, 2013

In this document it will discuss about African American women how they endured so many responsibilities. They always had to care for the house and stay with the children; make sure that the husband was waited on hand and foot. However, these came to change in over the years in the 1900s. With the Nineteenth Amendment we took care for all the rights we had endure so long to get.

In Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 the women’s right movement begins. Elizabeth Cady Stanton had drafted the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments for women (Bowles, 2011). She had signatures from 68 women and signatures from 32 men. This was a symbol of power for a beginning of a long struggle for education, professional, legal, and voting rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony work to progress with great effort to achieve victory (Bowles, 2011). They worked up until their deaths, Elizabeth passed away in 1902 and Susan passed away in 1906. However, their accomplishment was never acknowledge and still not welcomed to the ballot box (Bowles, 2011). The years passed and then Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in the 1900s. She organized this suffrage association for women to gain their momentum and their rights. Carrie Chapman Catt came into conflict with Alice Paul. Alice Paul wanted to put constitutional the amendment at federal level.

On the other hand, Chapman felt that the amendment should be brought to state level with the confidence that it would strengthen the amendment (www.pbs.org). In addition to, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman with their differences , Alice Paul made a decision to part ways from the NAWSA and for her own association called the National Women’s Party (www.pbs.org). The disenfranchisement of the Nineteenth Amendment was prolonged due to the facts that the women who were in the cohort category...