William Jennings Bryan
was a prominent figure in U.S. politics during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and is perhaps best known for his role as assistant to the
prosecution in the famous scopes monkey trial of 1925.
Although Bryan never won the country's top office, he exerted a strong
influence during his long career in public service. Many of the reforms he
advocated were eventually adopted, such as income tax, prohibition, women's
suffrage, public disclosure of newspaper ownership, and the election of
Senators by popular rather than electoral vote. Although he is most often
associated with the Scopes trial, his diligent devotion to the causes in which
he believed is his most significant legacy.
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he Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 5 September in 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By publishing this document, de Gouges hoped to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of sexual equality, but failed to create any lasting impact on the direction of the Revolution. As a result of her writings (including The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen), de Gouges was accused, tried and convicted of treason, resulting in her immediate execution, along with the Girondists in the Reign of Terror (one of only three women beheaded during the Reign of Terror - and the only executed for her political writings). The Declaration of the Rights of Woman is significant because it brought attention to a set of feminist concerns that collectively reflected and influenced the aims of many French Revolution activists.
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