10 - NWSA, Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth C. Stanton
I want to share the founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) outside of my tribute to the states’ women list and into a special feature to highlight their achievements. Their foresight and strength in sharing the message made heads turn. People stopped to listen. People started to rally. And change was coming.
Susan B. Anthony, b. February 15, 1820, d. 1906
Susan Bromwell Anthony traveled the country as a leader of the suffrage movement.
Growing in a Quaker family, she appreciated the beliefs that all people are created equally. Her brothers and sisters constantly fought for equality and emancipation of slaves. She herself took the stage speaking for freedom of slaves. Ms. Anthony did attempt to vote in 1872, arrested and fined $100. The reaction brought the suffrage movement to the forefront of conversation.
Elizabeth C. Stanton, b. November 15, 1815, d. 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton “formulated the agenda” for women’s rights.
The prominence of her family in Johnstown exposed Ms. Stanton to an informal legal education through her father and his visitors. She married Henry Stanton and advocated with anti-slavery leaders. She met Lucretia Mott at a convention in London, and together held the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848. In her “Declaration of Sentiment”, she “called for social and legal changes to elevate women’s place in society and listed 18 grievances from the inability to control their wages and property or the difficulty in gaining custody in divorce to the lack of the right to vote.”
Ms. Anthony and Ms. Stanton met in 1851, quickly becoming friends. They worked together for over 50 years for women’s rights. They co-founded the American Equal Rights Association, and co-edited “The Revolution” in 1868 to spread ideas of equality and rights. They broke from the AERA following the 14th and 15th Amendments that provided rights to African American men, but not to any women. Together they formed the NWSA to specifically have an Amendment for women to vote. In 1876, Susan B Anthony gave a speech written by Elizabeth Stanton, “Declaration of Rights”.
Susan B. Anthony, b. February 15, 1820, d. 1906
Susan Bromwell Anthony traveled the country as a leader of the suffrage movement.
Growing in a Quaker family, she appreciated the beliefs that all people are created equally. Her brothers and sisters constantly fought for equality and emancipation of slaves. She herself took the stage speaking for freedom of slaves. Ms. Anthony did attempt to vote in 1872, arrested and fined $100. The reaction brought the suffrage movement to the forefront of conversation.
Elizabeth C. Stanton, b. November 15, 1815, d. 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton “formulated the agenda” for women’s rights.
The prominence of her family in Johnstown exposed Ms. Stanton to an informal legal education through her father and his visitors. She married Henry Stanton and advocated with anti-slavery leaders. She met Lucretia Mott at a convention in London, and together held the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848. In her “Declaration of Sentiment”, she “called for social and legal changes to elevate women’s place in society and listed 18 grievances from the inability to control their wages and property or the difficulty in gaining custody in divorce to the lack of the right to vote.”
Ms. Anthony and Ms. Stanton met in 1851, quickly becoming friends. They worked together for over 50 years for women’s rights. They co-founded the American Equal Rights Association, and co-edited “The Revolution” in 1868 to spread ideas of equality and rights. They broke from the AERA following the 14th and 15th Amendments that provided rights to African American men, but not to any women. Together they formed the NWSA to specifically have an Amendment for women to vote. In 1876, Susan B Anthony gave a speech written by Elizabeth Stanton, “Declaration of Rights”.
“Men, their rights, and nothing more;Both women fought their entire lives for equality and the right to vote, both dying before The Nineteenth Amendment became a reality in 1920.
women, their rights, and nothing less.”
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