1. Bell Ringer! Take out your questions from the article and review your response to question #4 on your worksheet: – What kinds of actions can you take to be anti- racist?

2. Racism today http://www.splcenter.org/ Educate yourself about the history of racism and why it continues

3. Other Reform Movements… Temperance Education Prison Reform Mental Health Women’s Rights

4. At this time a woman… cannot divorce her husband, most courts grant custody of children to men cannot speak in public, considered “improper” (in most states) cannot own property can be legally beaten (harmed) by her husband cannot attend college (until 1837) cannot vote is paid significantly less for doing the same job

5. Isabella took on the name Sojourner Truth which means to stay temporarily and declare the truth to the people Talks about “double burden” of being African- American and a woman

7. Kerry Washington reading “Ain’t I a Woman?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4 no

8. Seneca Falls 1848 – 1 st Convention held on Women’s Rights Considered the beginning of the women’s rights movement Passed list of demands for movement to focus on Most controversial demand = Right to vote

9. Which rights do women now have? What issues remain?

10. Gender Equality today CNN student news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lj7HEkV p6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lj7HEkV p6Y Begin @ 3:24

11. Will women ever get the vote? “it will come, but I shall not see it...It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation…Failure is impossible!"

12. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Abolitionist Co-organizer of Seneca Falls Convention Author of “Declaration of Sentiments” – the manifesto produced by women in Seneca Falls – offers blueprint for feminist organizing for decades to come

13. Susan B. Anthony Skilled organizer temperance and anti- slavery movements Built women’s movement into national organization Supported women’s property and wage rights

14. Sojourner (Isabella) Truth Born into slavery in New York Witnessed many horrors of slavery (similar to Harriet Jacobs experience) Escaped to the North – worked with Quakers Her narrative published by Garrison “Ain’t I a Woman” most famous speech