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Preliminary Writing Plan for applied history on the Women's Suffrage Movement....

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Hannah Graves HIS 200 Applied History Southern New Hampshire University September 5, 2021

Preliminary Writing Plan The topic I wish the write my historical event analysis on, is The Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment. A Movement that leads to the ratification of the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote. In this movement there were marches, civil disobedience, picketing and silent vigils from several woman suffrage supporters. They wanted a radical change in the Constitution on Women’s Rights that consist of the right to vote, the right to equal wages and education plus many more causes. The reason why I chose to focus on this topic is to fully understand the history of event leading up to 19th Amendment. In modern time, we still struggle understand the rights women have and the struggle of discrimination against women. I want to be able to understand the importance behind the struggle of the Woman Suffrage in the 19th century and find similarities with the issues today. For me to conduct my preliminary research, I have decided to focus on the creation of the National Woman Suffrage Association and their work to ratify the 19th amendment. During the creation of the NWAS, how did the backstories and petition filed by the history figures such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass help with the fight against the opposing association? Hopefully, by the end of my research I will be able to know the hardship women faced to get the rights we have today and how to make sure my rights as a woman are not being taking for granted in modern times.

In my research so far, the search term I use includes: Woman Suffrage movement; Ratification of the 19th Amendment; Formation of National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA); The National Association Opposed; The 14th AND 15th Amendment; and Suffragette. After completing my initial research using my search terms, I have found the below primary and secondary sources to help me in my preliminary research. 

Peppas L. Women’s Suffrage. Crabtree Publishing Company; 2015. Accessed September 20, 2021. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=e871sww&AN=1796831&site=eds-live&scope=site

This resource examines the evidence of the woman suffrage. It also gives primary source documents, photos and speaks about key figure in the movement. As well as figure and organization opposing the movement. 

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; [ 1908 ], "The Woman Suffrage Movement and Frederick Douglass" This can be access on: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009311.mss42549.0393

This primary source gives many details and information on speeches and manuscripts from the history figures during the movement. Some topics they wrote of were Women-Societies and clubs, Women—Suffrage, Women's rights, Civil rights leaders and lectures given. 

Anthony, Susan B. and Ida Husted Harper. The History of Woman Suffrage. 1985. Vol. 13. This can be access on: https://archive.org/details/historyofwomansu01stanuoft/page/n11/mode/2up

The History of Woman Suffrage was written by multiple historical figures during the Woman suffrage Movement, this book tells the history from the mouths of the people who were there. It states, “In collecting material for these volumes, most of those of whom we solicited facts have expressed themselves deeply interested in our undertaking, and have gladly contributed all they could, feeling that those identified with this reform were better qualified to pre- pare a faithful history with greater patience and pleasure, than those of another generation possibly could.” 

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/womens-suffrage/

I have also used the website above to look at newspaper clipping, poster, and political cartoons during the time of the Women suffrage Movement. After conducting research using the above primary and secondary sources, I would like to know more about the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage. How did the NAOWS challenge the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) during the early 20th century and how did NWSA overcome those challenges to cause the 19th Amendment to be ratified? Thesis Statement My thesis that the research for my historical event analysis has supported is: From the struggles and success of the women’s suffrage movement the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote, it did not substantially change the view of women of the opposers in the movement. Although, historians will argue that the ratification of the 19th Amendment was the turning point in Women’s history, it still did not make women equal to men. Even today women struggle to be equal than men.

I plan to write this historical analysis for an audience of modern women activist. This audience will be a familiar academic audience, that doesn’t necessarily need an enormous background about the movement but will be interested to know about the struggles and hardship women suffragist faced. Writing for this audience, I plan to focus on the petitions and backgrounds of the history figures that played a large role in the movement. This way I can convey the messages that the history figure like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted to portrait to women, if we have the will power and put our mind to what we fight for, we can succeed in our fight for women rights today. I will not devote a lot of time of the events of the movement but the causes of those events. I will attempt to bring hope to the audience, and my message will be that we can fight for our rights no matter the hardship we face....