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2 days ago · Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were the first two women in America to organize the women's rights convention in July 1848. Susan B. Anthony later joined the movement and helped form the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA) in May 1869.
3 days ago · Women's suffrage in the United States began back in 1840 when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were denied entry to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. The two were joined by Mary M'Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright and Jane Hunt to discuss the necessity for suffrage and what came from these discussions was the first suffrage ...
3 days ago · The 1848 Convention was inspired by the fact that in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their gender.
4 days ago · Leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who faced gender discrimination within the abolitionist ranks, recognized the parallels between the struggles for racial and gender equality. 3. Seneca Falls Convention: In 1848, the first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
1 day ago · Like the widely hailed Uncle Tom’s Cabin (which featured Quaker characters, but was not written by a Quaker: Lucretia Mott refused to read it, as novels were “frivolous”; but her husband James literally “burned the midnight oil” to finish turning the pages).
1 day ago · Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
5 days ago · Introduction. Following his election as president in 1828, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was in a position to carry out a policy he had long advocated: removal of the remaining Native Americans in the United States to territories west of the Mississippi.
