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Date Posted: 08:58:35 02/26/02 Tue
Author: Cindy C
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Womens Lib around 1880?

I watched an episode of Little House yesterday, and the show was about the woman that came to town telling the women that if they were to separate from their husbands.... any property that they had brought into the marriage would go to the husband, and so the women started a petition to change that law, which of course, the husbands did not agree with. This has been a favorite episode of mine, and I was wondering if the women of that time era would DARE speak out for themselves in such a way, and what would the men folk have really thought about it? I always got a kick out of the ending when laura is recounting the story, and says.."Ma says that one day Women may even have the right to vote, but I don't think so".

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[> Re: Womens Lib around 1880? -- Ann, 11:09:14 02/26/02 Tue

Well, I think Wyoming gave women the vote around that time, but it might have been a bit later, so at least in some places women were speaking out. My guess is that most would have griped about it among themselves, but not too many would have spoken out publicly, or if they did, would not have been taken seriously.

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[> [> Re: Womens Lib around 1880? -- Laura, 14:43:07 02/26/02 Tue

I gather that there were active suffrage movements in the west/ midwest at this time. And, there were also a lot of strong women who may well have spoken out.

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[> Here is a web page: One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview -- Amy, 10:48:17 03/02/02 Sat

Here is a web page called "One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview"

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html

and here's another timeline:
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/timeline1.html

A few highlights: In 1839, Mississippi passes the first Married Woman's Property Act.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association in 1866.

In 1872, Susan B. Anthony is arrested and brought to trial in Rochester, New York, for attempting to vote in a presidential election.

In 1876, Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes a Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States to be read at the centennial celebration in Philadelphia. When the request to present the Declaration is denied, Susan B. Anthony and four other women charge the speakers' rostrum and thrust the document into the hands of Vice-President Thomas W. Ferry.

In 1878, a Woman Suffrage Amendment is introduced in the United States Congress (it did not pass until 1919).

So there were a few women who did speak up and do outrageous things, although they certainly were in the minority at the time.

Amy

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[> [> Re: Here is a web page: One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview -- Cindy C, 11:03:04 03/02/02 Sat

Thank You Amy! Very interesting stuff!

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[> [> Re: Here is a web page: One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview -- Ann, 11:27:20 03/02/02 Sat

This one caught my attention:
1852-Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, which rapidly becomes a bestseller
Interesting that women were accepted as authors long before they were generally accepted for voicing their views in public speaking. And of course this board honors a woman author!

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