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In six pages this paper examines the post-Civil War female trailblazers who battled for change in America’s women’s rights movement. Nine sources are listed in the bibliography.
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the home fires burning. But after the war was over, many women decided to engage in combat for change. Industrialization and the succession of wars that followed in
the twentieth century brought out a strength and determination in women that had previously remained untapped. They recognized that if they could fight to keep their country and its
economy moving by holding down jobs while their men went off to war, they could fight for themselves and their rights. Since the Civil War, there have been several
key players in this extraordinary battle for change and because of the wiliness of these women to forge ahead at great personal costs to themselves, the women of the twenty-first
century enjoy privileges they would not have otherwise. One woman too often overlooked by history was one of its most fearless post-Civil War combatants for womens rights. Victoria Woodhull
(1838-1927) was a fierce individualist who may well have been the first American suffragette. Speaking before a Senate committee, Woodhull expressed strongly and with great eloquence her support for
the womens suffrage movement, and in 1871, she was elected President of the American Association of Spiritualists that espoused the concept of free love that was considered scandalous at the
time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or
as short a period as I can."2 Likely the most infamous female in the Reconstruction era, Victoria Woodhull refused to acknowledge any constraining gender boundaries. In 1872, she
was the first woman to run for President of the United States as a candidate for the feminist Equal Rights political party. Suffrage was considered by post-Civil War women to
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