Biography womens rights activists in the 1800s
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Edited by Debra Michals, PhD | 2017
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.
Born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady, Johnstown's most prominent citizens. She received her formal education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in New York. Her father was a noted lawyer and state assemblyman and young Elizabeth gained an informal legal education by talking with him and listening in on his conversations with colleagues and guests.
A well-educated woman, Stanton married abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton in 1840. She, too, became active in the anti-slavery movement and worked alongside leading abolitionists of the day including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and William Lloyd Garrison, all guests at the Stanton home while they lived in Albany, New York and later Boston.
While on her honeymoon in London to attend a World’s Anti-Slavery convention, Stanton met abolitionist Lucretia Mott, who, like her, was also angry about the exclusion of women at the proceedings. Mott and Stanton,
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New Jersey native Alice Paul, along with her longtime colleague Lucy Burns, was one of the driving forces behind final passage of the 19th Amendment granting Women's Suffrage. The product of a privileged background, she took advantage of her educational opportunities, earning a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912. Prior to the doctorate, Paul studied at the London School of Economics, where she befriended English suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst. Like her longtime friend and colleague Burns, she embraced the suffragist movement, participating in countless demonstrations and other acts of civil disobedience that resulted in imprisonment. With Burns, she participated in hunger strikes and endured brutal force feedings.
Upon her return to the U.S., she was driven to bring the same tactics of direct action to the American suffrage movement. She joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), assuming leadership of the committee working on a constitution amendment. Paul reunited with Burns, and they began planning the 1913 Woman's Suffrage Procession, which was set to coincide with the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. The 8,000 who marched attracted an estimated 500,000 onlookers and nation
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The Women’s Candid Movement, 1848–1917
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