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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. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its ...
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. Born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady, Johnstown's most ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815, to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston. Her father was the owner of enslaved workers, a prominent attorney, a ...
Oct 22, 2024 · 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. Elizabeth Cady received a superior education at home, at the Johnstown ...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815—1902) 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. She was in the tradition of Abigail Adams, who implored her husband John to “remember the ladies ...
The Cady home in Johnstown, NY. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, was the eighth of ten children. The daughter of well-to-do-parents, her mother Margaret Livingston in 1801 married Daniel Cady who became a state Supreme Court judge. The family’s future was centered around the male heirs; however, four of ...
The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources 1991), microfilm reel 28. [9] Stanton to Martha Coffin Wright, Feb. 10, 1861, in Stanton and Blatch, eds., ECS 2:87. Selected Bibliography Barkley Brown, Elsa. "Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the ...
May 9, 2018 · Elizabeth Cady Stanton's signature headed the petition, followed by Anthony, Lucy Stone, and other leaders. But the political climate undermined their hopes. The 15th Amendment eliminated restriction of the vote due to "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" but not gender. Campaigns to include universal suffrage in Kansas and New ...
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 received a superior education at home, at the Johnstown Academy, and at Emma Willard’s Troy ...
The sixth and final volume of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project, An Awful Hush, 1895–1906, offers an intimate look at how Stanton and Anthony confronted these issues at the end of their lives. Through a selection of personal letters, articles, and other papers, the book documents their last political project ...
