Important women
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) was a prominent advocate for women's rights, especially the dress reform. Growing up she was not well educated and received only a few years of grammar school education. She attended the Seneca Falls Convention but did not participate in the conference, after this she decided to take the movement into her own hands and formed her own temperance newspaper, The Lily.
How She Made an Impact: Amelia published her own temperance newspaper called The Lily and it was an immediate hit with 4,000 readers within a few years. Claiming that corsets were too restrictive and unhealthy Amelia created her own dress for women. The bloomer, as it was called, consisted of loose garments and pants over dresses and skirts. Although the bloomers trend never caught on Bloomer herself was very successful in her fight for women's rights. Through her newspaper The Lily she was able to spread her ideas on women's rights. |
When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off
~Amelia Bloomer
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) was a Quaker abolitionist who was a huge supporter of women's rights. After being outraged at the World Anti-Slavery convention in London when they were not allowed to enter because they were women, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to organize what became known as the Seneca Falls Convention.
How She Made an Impact: Along with Anthony, Stanton and others, she helped to found the American Equal Rights Association which fought for women and African Americans right to vote. She also helped organize the first ever women's rights convention, The Seneca Falls Convention. |
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
~Lucretia Mott
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