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During the course of America’s history, the women’s suffrage movement experienced many dynamics. It is commonly recognized as having
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Joe Bohn HIS212 Prof. Thomas Jackson America's Constitutional Enfranchisement of Women During the course of America's history, the women's suffrage movement experienced many dynamics. It is commonly recognized as having been initiated with the women's involvement in helping black slaves achieve freedom from slavery and overall citizenship rights. Little did these women know that the soon to be instituted 15th amendment would constitutionally enfranchise men of every race and ethnicity, but still exclude them. For those women who had been actively involved in helping the Negroes gain a sympathetic voice, this neglect to acknowledge women in the amendment was nothing less than a heinous outrage. They quickly realized that the governing body of white men would more quickly give freedom to uneducated and poor foreigners than to their own mothers and wives, whom were steadily beginning to make financial contributions at home as a result of industrialization. Herein, I'll illustrate how the...
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