Women Who Fought For The Vote

Today, I met some very popular women, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They are both very inspirational to me. My story is somewhat like there’s so I relate really well to them. I understand where they came from and they understand me.

Susan B. Anthony was perhaps the most well known women’s rights activist in history. She was born a Quaker and was raised to be independent and outspoken, much like me. In 1853 she began to campaign for the expansion of married women’s poverty rights and in 1856 she joined the American Anti-Slavery Society. After the Civil War she refused to support any suffrage amendment unless they granted the franchise to women as well as men. She continued to fight for the vote until she died on March 13, 1906.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was known as one of the foremost women’s rights activist and philosopher of the 19^th century. She married abolitionist Henry Stanton, soon after the two traveled to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where they were soon turned away because female delegates were unwelcome as they were told. She then organized the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, where they signed a Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton continued to fight for women politically as well as marriage and divorce laws for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902.
            A statue of Stanton, Anthony, and fellow women’s rights activist Lucretia Mott now stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capital.