Women's Rights

History - Making Women


Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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(1815-1902)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the great leaders of the womens rights movement. She helped women gain rights. With her help women achieved the Declaration of Sentiments and the Nineteenth Ammendment. She was known as the "mother of women rights". Stanton met Lucretia Mott at an abolitionist convention to end slavery.

Lucretia Mott

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(1793 -
Lucretia Mott was antislavery activist. She was the representative for Philadelphia antislavery society. She led the fight with Elizabeth Cady Stanton for Women's Rights.

Susan B. Anthony

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(1820-1906)
Susan B. Anthony was also one of the great leaders of the women's rights movement. She was born in a Quaker Community where women were treated as equal members. Anthony and Stanton worked together by combining her speech giving talent with Stantons speech writing talent to go foward in this organization. She also organized the first Woman's State Temperance Society in NewYork. She delivered the signatures to the U.S Senate.

Other Women Who Helped Achieve Women Rights

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Lucy Stone
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carrie chapman catt
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anna howard shaw
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alice paul