Men make Women Suffrage happen

Gender Equality wasn’t just headed by the women. The Seneca falls convention of 1848 was ran by James Mott. At the convention, he and 31other men signed the Declaration of Sentiments to help support the women and their fight for Gender Equality.  One of the men that signed was Fredrick Douglass, the famous social reformer after escaping slavery. Not until after the Civil war did the organizations pop up to help out the women like American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA) and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) but in the 20th century the National Men’s League for Women Suffrage. 

The National Men’s League for Women Suffrage grew very quickly. Only two years after the League was made it had almost 20,000 members. Union men were a big support group for the women. The Majority of voters to approve women suffrage were from the union workers but there was a big support from Congress. Some Congressmen had to make an effort to vote. Some left their sickbeds others had broken bones and others left their wife’s deathbed all to vote for women rights. The effort payed off by one vote. The 19th amendment was passed and it really would not have passed if it was not for the men and the men in higher power. Sure women wanted and pushed for suffrage but the men were the ones who really achieved it.

"Rights for Women." Rights for Women. National Women's History Museum, 2007. Web. 10 Sept.   2013.