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The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Marie Gouze provides a declaration of the rights of women in a pamphlet to parallel the one for men. -
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the women’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for women’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century. In 1848, she and others organized the first national women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. -
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women’s suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. -
Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women's suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage. In 1903 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), one of the founders of the woman suffrage movement in America, presented her personal library of feminist and antislavery literature to the Library of Congress. -
thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue--the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day--in a procession organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Designed to illustrate women's exclusion from the democratic process, the procession was carefully choreographed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, the newly appointed chairs of NAWSA's Congressional Committee. -
Alice Paul raises a glass in front of the suffrage flag in September of 1920. Alice Paul was one of the most prominent activists of the 20th-century women's rights movement. An outspoken suffragist and feminist, she tirelessly led the charge for women's suffrage and equal rights in the United States -
Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution – guaranteeing women the right to vote. -
Gloria Steinem -
Fourth-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began around 2012 and is characterized by a focus on the empowerment of women, the use of internet tools, and intersectionality.The fourth wave seeks greater gender equality by focusing on gendered norms and the marginalization of women in society -
Salma Hayek -
Phyllis Schlafly and feminist icon Betty Friedan -
Ferrera "It is literally impossible to be a woman..."