elizabeth cady stanton

     

Elizabeth Cay Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.

Trivia about elizabeth cady stanton

  • When she married Henry Stanton in 1840, she insisted on omitting the word "obey" from the marriage vows
  • An alliance began in 1851 when Susan B. Anthony met this 3-named woman in Seneca Falls
  • Women's rights leader:____ Cady ____
  • Unable to vote, in 1869, she & Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association
  • She and Lucretia Mott organized the first women's rights convention in 1848

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