Elizabeth cady stanton (1815-1902)
Elizabeth was a women's rights supporter who organized the Seneca Falls Convention to support a woman's right to vote. With that she contracted the Declaration of Sentiments at the convention which introduced women having the right to vote. Stanton became aware of the unfairness in how women were treated in her father's law office by learning the ways in which the law didn't protect women. Later on in life she was rejected by Union College due to her gender. Stanton didn't let this stop her, instead she studied law with her father and specialized in legal and constitutional history. In 1839 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, Stanton was angered when women delegates were refused permission to participate in the conference itself. It was after this that Stanton along with Lucretia Mott, another women's rights activist, vowed to host a women's rights convention back in the United States.
How She Made an Impact:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's impact on the Women's Rights Movement was creating the Declaration of Sentiments and holding the first ever Women's Rights Convention (The Seneca Falls Convention). She also co-authored a book called "History of Woman's Suffrage", which documented the suffrage movement throughout the nineteenth century. Also with Susan B Anthony she co- founded the National Woman's Loyal League to help women gain the right to vote and African Americans gain freedom and the right to vote. In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association with Susan B Anthony and Lucretia Mott, among others. This group demanded the right to vote for women and African Americans alike. However after the Fifteenth Amendment was passed which granted the right for African American males to vote Stanton and Anthony founded another organization called the National American Woman Suffrage Association which was made solely to fight for women's suffrage. Stanton spent the next twelve years travelling the country and speaking on behalf of the association. Due to her efforts women gained the right to vote in 1920.
How She Made an Impact:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's impact on the Women's Rights Movement was creating the Declaration of Sentiments and holding the first ever Women's Rights Convention (The Seneca Falls Convention). She also co-authored a book called "History of Woman's Suffrage", which documented the suffrage movement throughout the nineteenth century. Also with Susan B Anthony she co- founded the National Woman's Loyal League to help women gain the right to vote and African Americans gain freedom and the right to vote. In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association with Susan B Anthony and Lucretia Mott, among others. This group demanded the right to vote for women and African Americans alike. However after the Fifteenth Amendment was passed which granted the right for African American males to vote Stanton and Anthony founded another organization called the National American Woman Suffrage Association which was made solely to fight for women's suffrage. Stanton spent the next twelve years travelling the country and speaking on behalf of the association. Due to her efforts women gained the right to vote in 1920.
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in international affairs to make a safe and stable government.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For information on other important women in the movement click here