LIFE FOR A WOMAN

LIFE BEFORE 1920

• Couldn't vote
• Couldn't serve on juries
• Married/had children young
• No abortion
• Marital rape was allowed

CONTINUED

• No contraception
• Couldn't attend ivy league schools
• Couldn't have a credit card
• Restrictions on dress code
• Discrimination in the work place

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

19TH AMENDMENT

• President of the National American Woman Suffage Association
• Illegally voted, got fined, didn't pay
• Women didn't have right to vote when she died
• On dollar coin in recognition of her hard work
• Her contributions helped the passing of 19th amendment

CLARA BARTON

RED CROSS

• Helped with Civil War as nurse
• Brought Red Cross from Europe to America
• Created Friends of the Missing Mens of the United States
• Created free public schools for children
• Helped wherever she could with womens rights, main focus was medicine

MARGARET SANGER

SEX ED

• Was first a nurse, amd saw people struggle with their pregnancies
• Illegally published a magazine "The Rebel"
• Escaped her jail sentence and fled to England
• Founded International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952
• 1965- supreme court made birth control legal for married couples

IDA B. WELLS

DOCUMENTING HISTORY

• Black journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, and socialist
• Pushed for the rights of woman
• Founded "The Alpha Suffrage Club," in Chicago
• Documented the lynchings and other forms of discrimination against blacks
• Wrote about the lynching of three of her friends in 1892

ALICE PAUL

WOMAN DESERVE RIGHTS

• Inspired by the European womans suffrage movement
• Member of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association
• Left due to disagreeing with policies
• Partocipated in hunger strikes
• "Silent Sentinels" picketed white house

WOMEN'S RIGHTS AFTER 1920

• Alice Paul helped introduce Equal Rights Amendments
• Could vote, white women
• Black women vote 1960s
• Can graduate from universities
• Advancements in home, work, and political roles

FLAPPER

• Short skirts
• Short hair
• Noticeable makeup
• Defied societies view on "proper" women
• Illegally drank and smoked