A. Plan of Inquiry The purpose of this investigation is to establish the ways in which black and white women's involvement in the abolitionist movement influenced the women's movement. The trials will investigate and identify which events ultimately influenced the women's movement and why they were so influential. Primary and secondary documents will be used and analyzed with respect to their origin, purpose, value and potential limitations; which will help in the evaluation of the evidence collected. Documents will include books and websites that contain chronological accounts of important events. Analyzing and summarizing the documents and/or evidence will essentially assist in formulating a concluding statement that will reveal the ways in which women's actions during the Civil War period influenced the women's movement.B. Summary of Evidence The women's abolitionist movement was essentially the birth of the American women's rights movement that lasted from 1858 to 1920 (Leonhardt 2.A). Women's abolitionism during the Civil War period was a movement intended to prohibit and end slavery in the states; done by trying to educate the public about the immorality of slavery. These women who joined forces with male protesters helped condemn slavery, calling for the end of “a peculiar institution” (Leonhardt 2.A). It was through the involvement, organization and preparation of women that some women were able to become somewhat respected leaders in the women's movement. Abolitionist women, black and white, were not at all intimidated by the public attitude of white males who argued that protection should be considered necessary at all times during the struggle to end slavery (Beecher). Catharine Be...... center of paper......, Julie Roy, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. H-SHEAR, H-Net reviews. January 2000. Jeffrey, Julie Roy. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Anti-Slavery Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Rycenga, Jennifer. A Greater Awakening: Women's Intellect as a Factor in Early Abolitionist Movements, 1824-1834. N/A: Jennifer Rycenga, 2005.Venet, Wendy Hamand. Neither ballots nor bullets: women abolitionists and the civil war. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.Yee, Shirley J.. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Yellin, Jean Fagan, and John C. Horne. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.