Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seated, and Susan B. Anthony, Standing

Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped lead the early suffrage movement and authored the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, introduced at one of the first female-organized women’s rights conventions in Seneca Falls, New York. 

Stanton and her colleague, Susan B. Anthony, were more than advocates for votes for women – they sought a wholesale social revolution. With roots firmly planted in the temperance and abolition movements, both Stanton and Anthony pushed women’s rights in a more radical, political direction. Their controversial women’s rights newspaper, The Revolution (1868–1872), explicitly promoted a woman’s right to vote, divorce, own property, organize, and to voluntary motherhood.