The Artist as Suffragist
The Women's Rights Movement
Many people might not know that women have not had the right to vote for a long time. In fact, women only got the right to vote in the early part of the twentieth century. The suffrage movement was meant to give women that right and to allow them to do things only men could do at the time.
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In 1848, three hundred people attended the first woman’s rights convention. The suffrage movement was not just in America, it was all over the world. Some major American people in this fight were Anne Hutchinson, Frances Wright, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.
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After years of struggle, on August 18th 1920, women finally won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified by the states. While Rose Cecil O’Neill's activism may not have been as well-known as some of the other suffragists', her work was definitely as important.