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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (born November 12, 1815, Johnstown, New York, U.S.—died October 26, 1902, New York, New York) was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first concerted demand for women’s suffrage in the United States.
Nov 9, 2009 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement. She came from a privileged background, but decided early...
Mar 20, 2024 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. An eloquent writer, her Declaration of Sentiments was a revolutionary call for women's rights...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ignited a rebellion that brought about one of history’s largest revolutions in social change. She was a brilliant writer, strategist and philosopher. At the same time, she was a wife, mother of seven children, and revolutionary.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most influential public figures in nineteenth-century America. She was one of the nation’s first feminist theorists and certainly one of its most productive activists.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The foremost advocate of women’s rights in the nineteenth century was the daughter of a Johnston, New York, lawyer and congressman. In 1840 Elizabeth Cady married an antislavery orator, Henry Stanton. They had seven children.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, née Elizabeth Cady, (born November 12, 1815, Johnstown, New York, U.S.—died October 26, 1902, New York, New York), American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was the leading activist-intellectual of the nineteenth-century movement that demanded women’s rights, including the right to education, property, and a voice in public life. Among those rights was the right to vote, which Americans of her era increasingly understood as an important mark of citizenship.
