US WOMENS HISTORY

Introduction

The American society was such a fragmented society in its early days of independence that various sectors of the society have had to free themselves through the hard way . The racial segregation between the blacks of the south and the whites of the north took a long time to resolve , and the solution came only by the war between the two regions when the one mighty Abraham Lincoln intervened . After racism , gender equality took the center stage . The American men could not envisage a situation where their women counterparts could vote

alongside them , but with the upcoming of powerful women like Elizabeth Cady Sturton and Susan B Anthony with no exception to Alice Paul in the late 19th Century saw the fight get a notch higher . Actually the centre problem was the Amendment of section nineteen which will have allowed the women of the bigger empire . In this we are going to peruse through the whole process of the fight until the actual inception

The history of the women 's suffrage movement can be traced back in 1848 .In this year a small women 's Right convention met at Seneca Falls in New York . These ladies were here to initiate their public outcry for equal rights with men .They wanted to be given equal opportunities as men to attend college , to make doctors and lawyers as their men counterpart . Pegged to this they demanded the right to vote , which according to them will open doors for all of the above

Alice Paul , the biggest name in the fight for women 's suffrage , entered battle seven decades after the inception of the fight . She herself had a test of the battle back in England where she had gone to attend her studies but unfortunately her later years ended in jail . She immediately flew back to the states only to find that the fight was underway . The entrance of Alice Paul in the bigger fight saw the battle reenergized and take an even rigorous pace

It is important to note that the first time the women 's suffrage amendment was presented to congress was in 1878 but unfortunately the congress did not give it any vote . In the next four decades the unrelenting women kept presenting it to the congress , all this time the bill yielding no luck . By this time the older generation of women suffragist had gone but the support among the American population had not gone . When Alice Paul and his party (National Women 's Party ) gained strength , some states of the United States had already mandated voting for their women .Infact , in 1916 Montana became the first state to elect a woman , Jeannette Rankin ,to the congress . However , the congress was not in any way prepared to pass the suffrage amendment bill

With the congress having a negative attitude towards the bill (perceived as a gender biases ) Alice Paul and some other leaders like Harriet Sturton thought to get the attention of the president and the...