Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), known as the "Mother of the Women's Movement," began her work for equal rights as an abolitionist. She, Lucretia Mott, and other white women were barred from speaking at... 
... the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London due to their sex, and they were only allowed to stay if they moved to the spectators' gallery and watched the proceedings in silence.
Appalled by this injustice, Stanton became determined to hold a convention for women's rights. She organized the Seneca Falls Convention eight years later and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which included the most radical of all ideas: the right of women to vote.
The mother of seven shocked Victorian sentiments when she celebrated the births of her children by raising a flag up the flagpole in front of her home as she tried repeatedly to have a girl. A red flag meant a boy, a white flag a girl.
After giving birth to four sons, she wrote to Mott when her daughter, Margaret, was born, "Rejoice with me all Womankind, for lo! a champion of thy cause is born."
Stanton condemned the "murder of children, either before or after birth" in the pages of The Revolution, the radical suffragist newspaper she edited and co-founded with Susan B. Anthony, and later declared...
“There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of woman?"
Join us as we continue to celebrate Women's History Month and commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote and was led to victory by the ORIGINAL feminists for life!
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