February 23, 2009 to syllabus Paper Topic Instructions and Options
New: Questions on
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's rights
History 350: American Radicalism
I. Women's Rights, Women's Roles and the Anti-Slavery Movement
A. Sarah and Angelina Grimké
1.
Privilege and Conversion
2. Angelina Grimké
and Anti-Slavery Lecturing
Catharine
Beecher opposes abolitionist women
Angelina Grimké replies to Beecher
B. Women's Roles,
Politics and a Divided Abolitionism Movement
II. Cady Stanton as “Community Organizer”?
A.
Tocqueville: Voluntary Associations Counter Individualism
B.
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the Task of Organizing Women
III. Women's Rights and African Americans'
Rights
A. 14th and 15th Amendments: "The Negro's Hour"? (14th Amendment) (15th)
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.
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. * * *
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)
IV.
Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Equality