The Womens Rights Movement

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ion and beliefs of
how women were treated. Though Elizabeth was busy working towards her
goals within the movement she still found time to be a full-time wife and
mother of many children. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived her life to the
fullest, working towards her dreams and aspirations that would benefit
women everywhere. She worked a long and hard fifty years to help women
achieve the vote and other equal benefits.

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Lucretia Coffin Mott was born in 1793 and died in 1880. Lucretia
was educated at Nine Partners, a Quaker boarding
school near Poughkeepsie, New York. She married James Mott,
who had been a teacher at that school. Lucretia was an American
abolitionist and feminist. In 1817 she became involved in the Society of
Friends, and in 1827, the society split into two parts; she and her husband
joined the group called the Hicksites, which was a liberal function led by
Elias Hicks. Together Lucretia and her husband helped organize the
American Antislavery Society in 1833. They were both delegates to an
International Anti-slavery Convention in London, in 1840. Unfortunately,
Lucretia was excluded because of her sex. So she devoted most of her time
and energy in helping provide equal rights for women. She was one of
Elizabeth's friends who helped organize the first Women's Rights Convention
in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 and died eighty-six years later
in 1906. Susan was, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a Quaker abolitionist and
suffragist. She was also the first to realize that signatures on a
petition were necessary in order to get the men in government to hear the
grievances of women. After figuring out this useful fact she and her
captains went out to collect as many signatures on as many petitions as
possible. In 1854 Susan and her captains took the petitions to the New
York legislature, gaining women the right...