Who Was: Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Encyclopaedia Britannica

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was born on november 12, 1815 in johnstown, new york, as a young adult she began studying law in her father's office, a member of the united states house of representatives, there she learned about the discriminatory laws that affected women in the united states and Deciding to change them in 1848, Stanton organized a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, with fellow reformer Lucretia Mott, whom she had met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in Seneca Falls, Stanton. She presented her statement of sentiments in a document detailing the inferior status of women compared to men. The treaty served as a rallying cry for the American women's rights movement shortly after the Seneca Falls Convention.

Stanton became associated. With women's rights activist Susan B Anthony together the two campaigned nationwide for women's suffrage liberalized divorce laws and women's legal rights in marriage Stanton the Superior Wordsmith wrote most of the speeches of The couple, although both began as ardent abolitionists, Stanton and Anthony were frustrated when free black men gained the right to vote before white women, a stance that tarnished their otherwise radical political legacies, and although the women Black women like Ida B Wells played an important role in the history of the suffrage movement, often being excluded from the Stanton and Anthony Elizabeth organization Katie Stanton died on October 26, 1902 in New York City, although she did not live to see women's suffrage become a reality that had managed to ensure married women in New York State greater rights over their finances, their children, and divorcing you.