The Women's Rights Movement

Indian Trail, NC- In the women's rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not noticed a lot. Elizabeth was born in 1815. She is believed to be the driving force behind the convention in 1848. Elizabeth played a leadership role in the Women's Rights Movement. She was a leader for 50 years out of the 87 yeears she was living. Elizabeth was good friends with Susan B. Anthony, but was sometimes over looked by her. In London, Elizabeth meet (sic) Lucretia Mott. Mott discussed the need of a convention on women's rights with Stanton. Stanton, Mott, and Susan B. Anthony planned the first Women's Rights Convention in the United States. Stanton's role was a leader in the movement. Unwilling to commit to vigorous traveling, Elizabeth waited until her children were grown. So Elizabeth wrote a lot of speeches for delivery by Anthony. About thirty years after the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth and Matilda Joslyn Gage authored the Declaration of Rights of Women of the United States, which Susan B. Anthony presented, while being uninvited at the centennial celebration in Washington in 1876.

In Stanton's later career she focused increasingly on social reforms related to women's concerns other than suffrage. Gage split completely with Anthony over Anthony's success and effort to merge the MWSA which is a more conservative counterpart into the National America Women's Suffrage Association. Stanton agreed to serve as President of the Combined Organization for a brief period. In 1902, Elizabeth Cady Stanton died.

Like Anthony and Gage, she did not live to see the Women's Suffrage in the United States. Elizabeth is nonetheless regarded as one of the true major forces in the drive toward equal rights for women in the United States and other women around the world. A statue of Stanton, Mott, and Anthony is in the United States capitol (sic).