All Rights for All: Working for Justice

Despite strict roles for men and women by class and race, and strong criticism of unconventional behavior during the early 1800s, activists and agitators chose to live their lives with greater freedom than they had been born into. Step by step on the long path of achieving more rights for all people, the perseverance, stubbornness and determination of women like Betsey Bailey, Harriet Bailey and Anna Murray, all women central to Frederick Douglass’s life, passed on a better world for all. While the amount of correspondence and information about the great orator’s life has been available to researchers, what’s been known about the key role of women in the social reform movements of the 1900s is finally coming to light for interested readers.