Who led the women's suffrage movement?

2 For more on the convention at Seneca Falls, its participants, and the larger movement it spawned, see Ellen DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in the U.S., 1848-1869 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978). read more

What's interesting to note is that Women's Suffrage started in Great Britain, and then the United States; the Abolition movement also followed this pattern (GB first, US second.) Part of the reason these movements occurred was the Anglo-American philosophy of expanding freedom. read more

The women’s rights movement of the late 19th century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women like Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth traveled the country lecturing and organizing for the next forty years. read more