Not Watching Iron Jawed Angels

Directions

• I am assuming the majority of students watched Iron Jawed Angels in 9th or 10th grade. This reading is a summary of that film as written in the book America’s Women by Gail Collins.

• Task: The names of significant people, laws and other items are circled. For example, line 4-5 Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are circled. How does the reading provide a brief summary for the circled item?

So Far in this Class

1600-1700

Colonial America

1700-1800

Revolutionary War and new

Ideas

1800s

Slavery Challenged

Anti-Slavery Convention June 1840Seneca Falls 1848 (Stanton and Anthony)

1860s Civil War (African Slavery Ends)NWSA and AWSA Created 1869

1900s

Women get Right to Vote

NWSA

Stanton and Anthony

The Split

AWSA

Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips

Scenario

The Civil War is over and the African is now free. There is pushing for an Equal Rights Amendment in Congress. As a woman, would you support an amendment advocating for equal rights or want to pursue women rights separately?

What would you lose or gain? The difference is the split between the AWSA and the NWSA

The ERA Supporters have 1 million to spend advocating for change

How would you distribute the 1 million to seek change?

What would you lose or gain? The difference is the split between the AWSA and the NWSA

NWSA

Stanton and Anthony

Issues: Right to vote, divorce laws, ending discrimination at work and

pay

The Split

AWSA

Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips

Issues: Right to vote

1776 New Nation Abigail Adams

1837 Slave Convention

1848 Seneca Falls

1860-64 Civil War

13-15 Amendments

1869 NWSA and AWSA

Suffrage, divorce and jury of peers

1890 NAWSA

1913 Congressional Union lobbies Congress

1914 WWI Begins

Cult of Domesticity&Chinese immigration

Iron Jawed Angels

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns: Parade Organizers and NWP

Inez Milholland

Rose Winslow

Parade

Carrie Catt and NAWSA

1. NAWSA leader2. Believed an amendment

to the Constitution was not possible

Ida B Wells

In 1884, when 22 and a teacher in Tennessee, Wells-Barnett ignored a train conductor's order directing her to sit in a segregated car.

Editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight

Documented lynchings across the country, and raised awareness challenging alleged white "superiority."

Women and the West

1600-1700

Colonial America

1700-1800

Revolutionary War and new

Ideas

1800s

Women stand up and demand

change

1900s

Women get Right to Vote

1920s

Right to vote

And Abortion Laws

1950-1960s

Civil Rights Movement

And Sexual Revolution

1970-1980s

Abortion legalSexuality increases

Women work as necessity

Sexualizing Begins

Next Few Classes

• Comstock Laws and Abortion• Women in Ads• Sexual Revolution• Your Presentations