WOMEN’S RIGHTS BY: CALISTA NOLL

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.

NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN Reformers opened new schools for women. -Emma Willard opened a high school for girls in Troy, New York. -Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts, the first women’s college in the United States. A few men’s colleges began to admit women. -Elizabeth Blackwell attended medical school at Geneva College in New York. -Maria Mitchell became a noted astronomer. -Sarah Josepha Hale became editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. -Antoinette Blackwell was the first American woman ordained a minister.

SOJOURNER TRUTH Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?”.

LUCRETIA MOTT Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. In June 1840, Mott attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention, better known as the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, England. In 1850, Mott published her speech Discourse on Woman, a pamphlet about restrictions on women in the United States. In 1864, Mott and several other Hicksite Quakers incorporated Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, which remains one of the premier liberal-arts colleges in the country.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY Susan Brownell Anthony (February 20, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co- worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman. She became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.