Feb. 23, 2011  to syllabus                                     Paper topic instructions and options now online

       Questions on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's rights               

  
                                         History 350: American Radicalism

Today I’ll stay after class to discuss and answer questions about the paper topic options. The paper is, as you probably already know, due Wed., March 2 at class time.

We have unclaimed midterms. You can pick yours up from Lucas Burke at the break. Information on the grading scale is here: pages.uoregon.edu/~dapope/350gradingscale.htm

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize winning author, delivers the UO Presidential Lecture, Tues., March 1, Matthew Knight Arena. Free tickets at kidder.uoregon.edu, Duck Store, EMU Ticket Office.

I. Women's Rights and African Americans' Rights

A. 14th and 15th Amendments: "The Negro's Hour"?  (14th Amendment)   (15th)

Amendment XIV.

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.     *    *    *

Amendment XV.

Section 1.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. *    *    *

    B. Kansas campaigns: 1867 (brief bio of George Francis Train)

II. Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Equality (Library of Congress Women's Suffrage Images)   
    A. Suffrage as a Right

    B. Suffrage as Social Policy     (biography of Frances Willard, temperance advocate and feminist)

    C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a Changing Women's Movement
        1. The Solitude of Self    (link to her 1892 speech)
        2.
The Woman's Bible

    D. Was the struggle for women's suffrage a mistake?

III. Cady Stanton and Today's Women's Movement

    
      Anti-Suffrage Cartoon                              Suffrage as Consumerism


  Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Washington