Women's Rights and Reconstruction

Reconstruction - Women & the American Story

Women exerted political influence in the Reconstruction era, even without the right to vote. · Black women were essential to building and ...

Women's Rights and Reconstruction - The Journal of the Civil War Era

The struggle over woman suffrage and black suffrage in Reconstruction America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), esp. 12.

Reconstruction and the Battle for Woman Suffrage

Ellen DuBois is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-editor, with Richard Candida Smith, of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The Nineteenth Amendment and Women's Suffrage Part 3

Shortly after the Civil War, Congress proposed three amendments to the Constitution, known as the. Reconstruction Amendments, which aimed to ...

Reconstruction and Women | US History I (AY Collection)

They argued that by nationalizing citizenship for all persons, and protecting all rights of citizens— including the right to vote—the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...

The Emergence of the Suffrage Movement During Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, abolitionist feminists formed the American Equal Rights Association to fight for Black and women's suffrage.

Amdt19.3.1 The Reconstruction Amendments and Women's Suffrage

Congress proposed three amendments to the Constitution known as the Reconstruction Amendments that aimed to safeguard African-Americans' civil rights.

1870: Gender and the Reconstruction of American Democracy

The year 1870 marked an important turning point in the history of women's suffrage in the United States.

Women during the Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

Women during the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War, from 1863 to 1877, acted as the heads of their households due to the involvement of men in ...

Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era - Library of Congress

In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Later that year, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and others formed the ...

10. Women and Reconstruction - the remedial herstory project

During the Reconstruction Era, which followed the American Civil War, women faced many new challenges. Freedwomen struggled to find their place in society ...

Civil War and Reconstruction | National Women's History Museum

This lesson seeks to explore the role of Black women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and their exclusion from the generally accepted Women's Suffrage narrative ...

Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement

Like radical Republicans, black and white women studied here advocated land reform, political and civil rights, and an activist federal government. They worked ...

Woman's Rights organizations in Reconstruction-era Savannah ...

My question is: what associations, clubs, organizations, etc. might have existed to promote women's rights in Georgia immediately after the Civil War?

The 14th and 15th Amendments — History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage

Three amendments passed after the Civil War transformed the women's rights movement. The Thirteenth Amendment, passed in 1865, made slavery illegal.

What the Reconstruction Meant for Women - JSTOR Daily

Supporters of Reconstruction were quick to defend themselves against charges of giving legal rights to married women. Congressman Samuel ...

The 19th Amendment: Women Fight for Rights (1848-1877)

Black and white reformers united around a vision of universal suffrage—one that promoted voting rights for both women and African American men.

The Reconstruction Amendments and Women's Suffrage | US Law

Congress proposed three amendments to the Constitution known as the Reconstruction Amendments that aimed to safeguard African-Americans' civil rights.

The Struggle over Women's Rights | Facing History & Ourselves

Ultimately, the schism over the Reconstruction amendments led to the creation of two separate organizations. Stanton and Anthony formed the ...

Why the Women's Rights Movement Split Over the 15th Amendment

When the American Civil War concluded in 1865, women's rights advocates felt that the time had come to push for voting rights. Women had ...