Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906)
-Leader of the American woman suffrage movement.  Her dedication was responsible for the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.  Interesting fact: In 1872, she was arrested for voting!

Alice Stone Blackwell(1875-1950)
-Brought reconciliation between the two factions of teh women's suffrage movement; the Na        tional Women's Party(NWP) and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).     

Harriet Stanton Blatch(1856-1940)
-Daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Founded the Women's Political Union, in 1908.

Amelia Bloomer(1818-1894)
-Wrote an article defending the pantaloons and short skirt worn by reformer Elizabeth Miller.  These
clothes became known as "bloomers."

Carrie Chapman Catt(1859-1947)
-She rose to the top ranks of the suffrage movement.  When Susan Anthony retired, she took her place as president of the NAWSA.  She was also leader of the international suffrage organization and the peace movement.

Lucretia Coffin Mott(1793-1880)
-Along with her sister and Elizabeth Stanton, they organized and called together the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848.

Anna Howard Shaw(1847-1919)
-She devoted her oratorical talents full-time to the woman suffrage cause and served as president of the NAWSA from 1904 to 1915.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902)
-When the British excluded women delegates to the World's Anti-slavery Convention in London, England, she with Mott resolved to hold a women's rights convention when they returned to the United States.  This convention was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York.  She also helped pass in the same year the Married Women's Property Act. 

Lucy Stone(1818-1893)
-After the Civil War, the women's suffrage movement split.  Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association while Lucy Stone formed the American Woman Suffrage Association.  In 1890, the two suffrage movements joined again.  Interesting Fact:  When Lucy married, she refused to take the name of her husband and kept her maiden name.

Convention at Seneca Falls(1848)
-Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called for this convention.  It was the first women's rights convention and was held in Seneca Falls, New York.  They drew up a list of women's grievances and discovered that even though some states had awarded women control over their property, they still had none over their earnings.  Created the Declaration of Sentiments, which declared that men and women are equal.

Women's Rights in New York(1848)
-New York state in 1848 passed the Married Women's Property Act, which allowed the property of the wife at the time of marriage to remain under her control.
-in 1860, New York gave women the right to sue and be sued, to control their own wages and personal property, and to exercise joint guardenship of minor children.

National American Women Suffrage Association
-founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  It was the combination of the two factions of the women's rights movement that split in 1869.  Started in 1890.  After Anthony and Stanton retired,  the new leaders concentrated on the issue on women vote rather than the many causes Stanton and Anthony espoused.

National Women's Party
-led by Alice Paul.  This group split from the NAWSA and formed the NWP, a more militant organization.  The members were impatient with the slow progress of women's rights.

Nineteenth Amendment(1920)
-Finally after 72 years of struggle, the Nineeenth Amendment was ratified.  This made women suffrage

PBS Women's Rights

Women's Rights Movement

Susan B. Anthony

Rochester University's Women's Rights page

History of The Suffrage Movement

Grollier's Suffrage

National American Women's Suffrage Association

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