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History of women's rights

Susan B. Massachusetts native Lucretia Mott is widely considered the primary founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America. A staunch progressive and lifelong abolitionist and advocate for women's rights, she began her career as a schoolteacher and Quaker minister who soon became known for her eloquent speeches. The two women, after male attendees banned women from the event, joined forces to organize and advocate, and together, they planned and executed the seminal Seneca Falls Convention of Like Stanton, she published seminal works arguing for women's equality, including Discourse on Women Mott was the most prominent white woman in the abolition movement, and continued to use her status and notoriety to fundraise and advocate for the rights of both Black Americans and women after the Civil War; she pushed hard for equal education for both, and helped found both the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

She was equally passionate about both causes, and when the push for the 15th Amendment caused a rift between her Women's Suffrage Movement colleagues Stanton and Anthony and other movement leaders like Lucy Stone, Frederick Douglass and Frances Harper, Mott worked diligently to bring the two factions together. After the war, Mott continued to be a Suffrage Movement leader, heading the American Equal Rights Association, presiding over the Equal Rights Convention, and providing invaluable mentorship to activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Who fought for women's rights to vote

Her lifelong fight to ensure equal rights for women and Black Americans set the standard for many who would follow in her footsteps. Photo: Library of Congress public domain. A lifelong advocate for both civil rights and voting rights, Susan B. Anthony was one of the leaders of the modern Women's Suffrage movement that followed the Seneca Falls Convention of Her Quaker faith and exposure to the teachings of key abolitionist leaders as a youngster led her to join their cause, and she joined the Suffrage movement after meeting E lizabeth Cady Stanton in