Activism in the movement for Women’s Suffrage

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Activism in the movement for Women's Suffrage

I have chosen to focus on strategy building; how it affects women's roles in the community and the ways in which they brought about change. In light of these studies, we are able to examine strategies that enabled women to succeed in their activism. In addition, we are better able to assess the potential of pulling together these types of strategies.

In each case, the way in which women build alliances in order to pursue community change differs. These studies illustrate the diversity of women's movements due to race and class barriers. Furthermore, these women developed effective strategies in breaking through these barriers and developing creative a bridge which is essential to success.

Susan Parkison Stern (1994) describes how conversation-based research became a vehicle between parents which had not previously existed. I felt that this approach was the foundation to the success of their movement. This approach gave Stern, a white woman, the opportunity to gain acceptance in an African American community. With this acceptance she was able to raise issues within this community without being viewed as a cynic.

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