Hi Class! This week you'll let your breath out (I hope) and relax a bit since you have completed the difficult group speech--yeah! Coming up in the next few weeks we have
March 13: Homework: Read chapters 7, 8 and 9. For your special occassion speech, research, locate and print out or copy a suffrage speech and bring a copy to class 3/20 along with reference info. Visit the website for the film we'll watch at http://www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/ and you might also enjoy http://womenshistory.about.com/ or http://www.nwhm.org/about/visiting.htm and/or http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage/a/suffrage.htm as places to start tracking down a good suffrage speech. Also--start memorizing the class outline for the midterm. Be prepared for a quiz on current reading.
March 20th: We will watch a film called Iron Jawed Angels followed by discussion and selected Special Occassion readings from suffrage speeches as part of CRC Women's History Week. I will also lecture on some highlights from chapters 7, 8 and 9 and handout the midterm details. Bring to class: Your speech from the suffrage movement along with author and source citation. Be prepared to read a brief selection from this speech for the class (50 points) and for a quiz on current reading. Your homework will be to memorize the class outline and review impromptu information in the textbook on pg 45, 46 -284, 285 in book. Also, read chpt. 10.
March 27th: Midterm: Impromptu speeches, topics to be drawn from a secret envelope (very general) and grade based on organization and delivery in that order (content doesn't count)--(70 points)--Group speech feedback and grades distrubuted. Lecture on chpt 10.
FOR THIS BLOG ENTRY: Post title of speech you plan to share and who wrote it/why you chose it. If 2 people choose the same Suffrage speech, that's ok--but no more than two ok? Smiles--S
25 comments:
The speech that I chose was by Susan B. Anthony. It was given after she was convicted of voting illegally. I'm not sure what the exact title is. Most sites list it as "Susan's speech on women's right to vote." I chose Anthony because she is the pioneer of women's suffrage movement. I chose her speech because I think it is very powerful and the language of the speech is easy to understand.
-Samantha Huynh =)
A good suffrage speech I found was by Lucy Stone. This was her last public speech and she died a few months later. The title of this speech is "The Progress of Fifty Years," which was given in 1893. I chose Lucy Stone because she was the first woman in the US to keep her own name after marriage. I also chose her speech because it is strong. Her speech also talks about the past 50 years and change.
----Lisa Huynh
The suffrage speech I chose is called "The Destructive Male", by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She gave this speech in 1868 at the Women's Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. The reason I chose a speech from Stanton is because she fought for the important things in a women's life such as the property rights for married women and equal guardianship of children. My reason for this particular speech is because I can relate to it.
-Julie-
The original speech I chose was "The Destructive Male" by Elizabeth Cady Staton, but Julie beat me to it. =) So I chose "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth. This speech was given at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention, in Akron, Ohio. I found this to be a powerful speech because Sojourner Truth was speaking as a person without voters right but she also spoke on how she was viewed as less than a women.
I also found a quote from Fredrick Douglas I could relate to. "[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence." I can relate to this quote simply with today's society and the fact women are still paid less than a man in the workforce.
Lashanda
I chose Carrie Chapman Catt's speech, "The Crisis". I chose this speech from her because a lot of lines from this speech caught my attention and interest. Carrie Chapman Catt speaks in a very eloquent and intelligent manner, which empowers her speech and empowers the movement. I also chose her because she was probably one of the first woman principles at a high school. Too bad the speech is like 7 pages long haha, i would've liked to print it all!
-Mary Dang
I chose the speech by Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman," spoken in 1851 at the womens convention in Ohio. It talks about how men always help women but why not her she is a woman and how men have more rights than woman do, also that woman can do things just like men can.
Jacquelyne Berg
Sounds good so far--Thanks for the updates! Sandra
I found a speech by Angelina Grimke Weld. It was at Pennsylvania Hall 1838. Women were not allowed to speak in public. I like this suffragette because she was bold and had a passion for womens rights as well as wanting to stop slavery even though she was from a southern plantation.I first picked Sojourner Truth too. She's amazing. Margaret
I chose Mary Church Terrell's speech "What it means to be colored in Capital of the US" because it talks about the discrimination of both races and sexes. Mary Terrel was the first African American woman to serve on the Distric of Columbia Board of Education. She represents the success of diminishing segregation and empowering woman's right. This speech of her tells how black woman was treated in Washington D.C. where supposed to be "the Colored Man's Paradise".
-Ngoc Nguyen-
Thanks Margaret and Ngoc! I am looking forward to these--it has been a while since I have read some of them--we read almost all of the suffrage speeches for my social movement class at CSUS in the Master's Program--it was very interesting--all social movements go through 5 distinct phases as "out groups" struggle, rally and eventually gain a voice (become 'in-groups'--Smiles--Sandra
Hello all! The speech i found is by Sojourner Truth, this speech was delivered at the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association New York City, May 9, 1867. I feel that her speeches are very strongly written and interesting to read. It is said that she was the first black women to speak out in public about slavery. To me this makes her stand out as and extrodinary and powerful women because im sure it took alot to be the first to speak out and use her right to freedom of speech that most women did not take advantage of.
"I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked." I thought this quote exemplified the type of person Truth was and really shows that she was a strong and influential women. see ya tomorrow!
--- ashleigh
I found this speech while googeling... Speaks Out on Child Labor and Woman Suffrage
by Florence Kelley
I chose this speech because its about mother's struggling to vote and how their children had to work from age six.
hi! the suffrage speech I chose is called "First Women's Rights", written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She gave this speech in 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the president of the AWSA (American Woman Sufffrage Association).I think she was very brave because she also was very active in winning porperty rights for married women in order for the husbands to respect and divide equally their properities shared by both, as well as respecting a gift giving to either one of them and considering it as an individual gift allowing it to be just used by the owner of the gift and no other person. Judith.
The speech that I found was a Carrie Chapman Catt, the speech "Woman Suffrage is Inevitable". I chose that speech because it was effective to encourage women to join the suffrage.
Ka Yi Leung
I chose the speech by Susan B. Anthony. To be quite honest, I had a heck of a time finding any speech. This speech is easy to read and understand. JoAnn
hey! I opted for a more traditional woman's right activist, and although not directly linked to the suffrage movement, she has been found to be the founder of the Feminist movement. I choose Simone De Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex". which i have already read. De Beauvoir tried to tackle the problem that women were facing back in the 1940s and offered many solutions. I chose her because I had extensive knowledge about her, and since she has revolutionized the feminist movement and is credited for her work that many claim has got women to were they are right now. Thank you!
Bassam
I found Maria W. Stewart to have a great speech about not only black freedom but also woman's. Her speech was delivered at Boston’s Franklin Hall and seems to have very good reasoning.
The speech I chose is called, "Discourse on Women", by Lucretia Mott. I chose this speech because I thought it was interesting how most of her main points were geared towards how God had made us all equal in the beginning, not one having more rights than the other.
-Leila Ahmadi
Hello!
The speech i chose to do is Lucy Stone's, The Progress of Fifty Years. Out of all the biographies i read on the other women, hers stood out the most to me because she was a woman who was born a leader. She wasn't afraid to be the first to do something even if it was really controversial. Like Lisa mentioned she is remembered for being the first woman to keep her own last name after marriage, but also the first woman to earn a college degree in Massachusettes and also the first person to be cremated in the state of New England.
-Zaira Guzman
Zaira Guzman
In the 1800s, women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay."I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny." I picked this speech because I like how Susan wanted to prove that voting was a common pratice of being a US Citizen. She wanted everybody to be treated in the equal way and having the same right.
Tu Nguyen
I chose Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Declaration of Sentiments". I think it is pretty cool how it is modeled after the Declaration of Independence but women are also specifically mentioned. It states what injustices were done against women and later on states how these grievances should be corrected.
Jonah
Susan B. AnthonyOn Women's Right to votei chose her becauses shes on the dollar coin.
I chose Adolph Lewisohn because he was one of the few enlightened guys that supported equality for women and spoke up for them.
Eric
Just to add more about the suffrage speech, the speech of Carrie Chapman Catt is interest to me because I think it is a very important speech of the suffrage about to endow the political freedom to women that they can vote in the presidential election.
Ka Yi Leung
Hello and good morning everyone.
I'm going to do a speech on Alice Paul. Unfortunately, Im unable to find a speech she wrote. But I'm going to still google one if i can for class. She is one of the leading figures responsible for the passage of the 19th Amendment (woman suffrage) to the U.S. Constitution. Here is one of her quotations:
"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. "
Charlie
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