The 19th Amendment to theU.S. Constitutiongranted American women the right to vote, a right known aswomen’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. In 1848, the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with theSeneca Falls Con...
The Declaration of Sentiments was written and signed by 68 women and 32 men in 1848 after theSeneca Falls Conventionin New York. The organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention included Elizabeth Cady Stanton andLucretia Mottwho were angered after being banned from an anti-slavery convention in Lond...
specific sexism faced by enslaved women.) As one of the first statements outlining the political and social repression endured by women, the “Declaration of Sentiments” met with significant hostility upon its publication and, with the Seneca Falls Convention, marked the start of thewomen’s ...
Lucretia Mott organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. She joined forces in 1850 withSusan B. Anthonyin the woman suffrage movement, and later she coedited the women’s-rights newspaperThe Revolution(1868–70). In 1869 she became the founding president of the National Woman Suffrage ...