Were the women who fought for women's suffrage feminists?

Before she joined the campaign for woman suffrage, Anthony was a temperance activist in Rochester, New York, where she was a teacher at a girls' school. read more

In UK at the time of the Suffragette movement, less than 50% of men had the vote. the women who fought for suffragists put their campaign had nothing to say about these disenfranchised men. read more

Stone, on the other hand, supported the 15th Amendment; at the same time, she helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association, which fought for woman suffrage on a state-by-state basis. In 1871, Stone and Blackwell began to publish the weekly feminist newspaper The Woman’s Journal. read more

Describing women's suffrage as the cornerstone of the women's movement, it was later circulated as a women's rights tract. Several of the women who played leading roles in the national conventions, especially Stone, Anthony and Stanton, were also leaders in establishing women's suffrage organizations after the Civil War. read more