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Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston -
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Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson -
Olympe de Gouges -
The women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls convention The resources that women shared with each other across national borders allowed suffrage movements to overcome political marginalization and hostility in their own countries. Finally, it led to the 19th amendment in 1920. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist. She was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. In 1848, she formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the U.S. -
Sojourner Truth -
Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. In 1866 she became the first president of the American Equal Rights Association, an organization formed to achieve equality for African Americans and women. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They worked from 1869 to 1890 to gain women the right to vote. -
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for women's suffrage in the United States. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. -
The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Jane Addams was a woman who stood for justice with the working class and for women’s suffrage. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements. Along with that, she was able to communicate effectively in her articles and in public speaking. -
The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle. This was a big step in paving the way for future advancements in gender equality. -
In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
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Malala Yousafzai became an international symbol of the fight for girls' education. She was shot in 2012 for opposing Taliban restrictions on female education in her home country of Pakistan. She is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. -
Salma Hayek -
America Ferrera