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The Women's Rights Movement

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  • Lucy Stone's Birth

    Lucy Stone's Birth
    Lucy Stone was a very important American woman for equal rights and she was extremely vocal in what she thought women deserved.
  • Susan B. Anthony's Birth

    Susan B. Anthony's Birth
    Susan Brownell Anthony was an American civil rights leader who was really important in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
  • Inequality in London

    Inequality in London
    In a World Anti-Slavery Convention in London Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women were barred from participating on account of their gender.
  • A Book Was Written

    A Book Was Written
    "Woman In The 19th Century" was written by a woman named Margaret Fuller. In it she wrote that men thought of women more as slaves than as equals. It was published in a magazine at first but then made into a book in 1845.
  • Lucy Stone Graduates

    Lucy Stone Graduates
    Lucy was the first woman in the state of Massachusetts to ever graduate from college.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    Women got together in New York to question the Constitution and why they didn't have rights the same as men like voting.
  • A New Friendship

    A New Friendship
    When Susan B. Anthony met Elizabeth Stanton and they became fast friends who both wanted women's rights.
  • Women Under Arrest

    Women Under Arrest
    Susan B. Anthony and supporters arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women held for $500 bail. Anthony herself is held for $1000 bail.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It made it clear that woman were supposed to be treated as equal as men.