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1910. Cicely Hamilton. "The March of the Women". With words by Cicely Hamilton and music by Ethel Smyth, the song was the official anthem of British women fighting for voting rights, and was also sung worldwide. 1963. Lesley Gore. "You Don't Own Me". Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. 1967.
Children. Alice Stone Blackwell. Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. [1] In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against ...
In 1869, the women's rights movement split into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments, with the two factions not reuniting until 1890. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
Women's History Month Quotes -. "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court justice ...
Music was often used in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Music played an instrumental role in the parades, rallies, and conventions that were held and attended by suffragists. [1] The songs, written for the cause, unified women from varying geographic and socioeconomic positions because the empowering lyrics were set to ...
Women's music. Women's music is a type of music base on the ideas of feminist separatism and lesbian-separatism, designed to inspire feminist consciousness, [1] chiefly in Western popular music, to promote music "by women, for women, and about women". [2]
Caroline Wells Dall ( née Healey; June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as ...
Jo Freeman. Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights movement.