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    Monologues: Suffragists and Activists
    Monologues: Suffragists and Activists
    Monologues: Suffragists and Activists
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    Monologues: Suffragists and Activists

    By AAUW Thousand Oaks,CA Branch, Inc

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    Monologues depicting 10 women who advanced a woman's right for equal educational opportunities, increased civil liberties, and the universal right to vote in the United States: Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth C. Stanton, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clara Shortridge Foltz, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Abigail Adams, and Inez Milholland Boissevain.

    This text is one of many monologues, Profiles of Women Past & Present, created by the AAUW Thousand Oaks, California Branch, Inc to enable parents, teachers, students, librarians and others to make women's history come alive for audiences in their communities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAAUW Thousand Oaks,CA Branch, Inc
    Release dateAug 22, 2018
    ISBN9780463188866
    Monologues: Suffragists and Activists
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    Thousand Oaks, CA is affiliated with AAUW and with AAUW California. We promote equity for women and girls by breaking barriers through advocacy, education, and research.

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      Monologues - AAUW Thousand Oaks,CA Branch, Inc

      ©2018 Thousand Oaks California Branch Inc. of the American Association of University Women, PO Box 4223, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-1223. All rights reserved for reproduction, sale and use by the holder of this copyright. Permission is granted to non-profit organizations and individuals to use these scripts in non-commercial performances as long as the Thousand Oaks Branch of the American Association of University Women is duly credited with authorship. Requests for other permissions should be sent to the address above.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

      Alice Paul (1885 – 1977)

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

      Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931)

      Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849 - 1934)

      Clara Barton (1821-1912)

      Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883)

      Harriet Tubman (1820 – 1913)

      Abigail Adams (1744 -1818)

      Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916)

      SUSAN B. ANTHONY

      WOMAN SUFFRAGE LEADER

      (1820 – 1906)

      MONOLOGUE

      Imagine that you have a job - any job like delivering newspapers or babysitting or walking dogs. Suppose that on payday your employer says, Here is your money. But because you’re a girl, I’ll only pay you half as much as I’d pay a boy. Would that be fair? Of course not! I spent my life fighting unfairness. I am Susan B. Anthony.

      I was born in 1820 in Massachusetts, but I grew up in New York State. At that time, women couldn’t keep the money they earned, go to college or vote! I was fortunate that my father belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. Quakers believe women and men are equals. They also believe in education for girls and boys, hard work and working to end injustice.

      My father taught me to be independent. When I was 12, he hired me to work in his cloth mill. I worked 12 hours a day for two weeks and earned my first money. I used it to buy pretty teacups for my mother.

      At age 19, I finished school and became a teacher. Teaching was the most respectable job a woman could have back then. But I was paid less than men who were teachers for doing exactly the same work. That made me angry. I believed I should receive equal pay for equal services rendered. I protested, but it didn’t make a difference. Other women would accept the unfair pay, so I had to accept it too - or quit.

      After a few years, I did quit. Teaching didn’t satisfy me. I wanted to work to end the injustice I saw in the world. I supported the temperance movement against the sale and use of liquor. People who drink too much cause a lot of problems. I was also an abolitionist. That means I worked to abolish, or end, slavery. Can you imagine? Americans owned other people and treated them like farm animals.

      In 1851, I traveled to Seneca Falls, New York, for an abolition meeting. There, I met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader in the women’s rights movement. We became lifelong friends and worked together for women’s suffrage - the right of women to vote. We wrote long speeches supporting women’s rights. I made many trips across the United States, giving the speeches and lecturing on women’s rights.

      When I spoke, I would say, What we demand is that woman shall have the vote, for she will never get her other rights until she demands them with the ballot in her hands. Often the people in the audience would boo or call me names because they thought I was unladylike - and because they disagreed with me. But disapproval never stopped me. It challenged me to work harder.

      In 1872, I voted in the presidential election. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution said all people born in the United States were citizens. It also guaranteed that no legal privileges, including the right to vote, could be denied to any citizen. I was a citizen, so wasn’t I guaranteed the right to vote too? I was arrested for voting illegally and tried in court. The judge decided I was guilty before my trial even started. He ordered me to pay a $100 fine, but I refused and went to

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