jan 1, 1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association [1869]

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(Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Anthony Stanton found the NWSA)

Elizabeth was the president of NWSA, she was an outstanding political and social commentator. Her speeches addressed an insane amount of topics involving woman's suffrage, mentioning topics such as divorce law, married woman's properties, child-rearing, and much more. She and her husband actually challenged the 14th and 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Partly and greatly succeeding in granting voting rights to black men, but not including women

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"He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. "

"He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice"

- The Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)


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