She was the leader of the National Woman's Party and was jailed for her beliefs that men and women should be equal partners in society. She spent seven months in imprisonment.
Born into slavery in Mississippi and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, she was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
A Quaker abolitionist and activist credited with merging the two largest women's suffrage movements into one known as the National American Women's Suffrage Association.
Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York but escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1826, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Who presented the Declaration of Sentiments which created the agenda for women's rights activism?
Where was the first United States Women's Rights Convention held?
She was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 and again in 1940.
She wrote a letter to her husband and the other members of the Continental Congress who were writing the Declaration of Independence to “…remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” She also warned that women “will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
Passage of the 19th Amendment occurred in this year.
Which President passed the 19th Amendment?
Ida B. Wells
Woodrow Wilson
Susan B. Anthony
Alice Paul
1848 in Seneca Falls, New York
Jeannette Rankin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
1920
Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States)