Citizen Hero Bulletin Board by Olivia Millard

Woman's Rights.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:20:43 UTC

Susan B. Anthony.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:24:34 UTC

Haven't they given enough?

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:33:32 UTC

No state could pass a law that took away their rights to “life, liberty, or property.”

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:38:32 UTC

Women's Suffrage Flag

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:47:40 UTC

It was a symbol of freedom.

VOTES FOR WOMEN.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:49:50 UTC

The Fourteenth Amendment affirmed the new rights of freed women and men in 1868. The law stated that everyone born in the United States, including former slaves, was an American citizen.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:54:01 UTC

Activists bitterly fought about whether to support or oppose the Fifteenth Amendment. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony objected to the new law. They wanted women to be included with black men.

Suffragist Queen

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 14:55:54 UTC

Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Susan-B-Anthony

https://www.nps.gov/people/susan-b-anthony.htm

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 15:05:37 UTC

The Fourteenth Amendment affirmed the new rights of freed women and men in 1868.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 15:10:09 UTC

Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, “If that word ‘male’ be inserted, it will take us a century at least to get it out.”

To be Woman

oliviamillard — 2025-02-26 15:21:06 UTC

oliviamillard — 2025-02-27 16:52:10 UTC

The emphasis on voting during the 1860s led women’s rights activists to focus on woman suffrage. The two sides established two rival national organizations that aimed to win women the vote.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-27 16:53:40 UTC

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

oliviamillard — 2025-02-27 16:54:56 UTC

Three amendments passed after the Civil War transformed the women’s rights movement. The Thirteenth Amendment, passed in 1865, made slavery illegal. Black women who were enslaved before the war became free and gained new rights to control their labor, bodies, and time.