HIST 3349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Equal Rights Association, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Adherents- believe but don"t march, don"t act in movement. Framing highlights the importance of discourse and controlling the narrative: reconstruction amendments. Fed gov. forced terms on the south. 13th amendment abolishes slavery (1865), 14th due process/equal protection basis of social legislation (1868) Equal protection- everyone has some rights/protections under the law- cannot have different rights for basic citizens. Procedural: law should be carried out equally--> is not carried out as such- challenging procedures. Substantive: goring after substance of the law itself (as a whole) 14th amendment- right to vote for all races/colors. American equal rights association (s. anthony, e. stanton, f. douglass) (1866-1869): falls apart over 15th amendment, does not benefit women. Does not guarantee black men the right to vote--> people find ways to deny them, wont officially use race: suffrage. 1869: national women"s suffrage association + american women suffrage. Women and the frontier- example of success for other states. Wyoming in 1869- opposition in 1889 upon statehood.
