Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony each helped lay the groundwork for its eventual attainment. Three names that we should always remember as they fought for woman's suffrage.
It is hard to imagine that it took 72 years for American women to win the right to vote. The suffrage battle started in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, where the seed was planted at the First Women’s Rights Convention. It ended in 1920 when women were guaranteed the right to vote by passage of the 19th Amendment.
The battle is one of the best documented movements in America history and yet in the world today, the Woke Liberals and Corporations are trying to erase our voice- the Women’s Voice.
After all those years of struggle, ratification of the 19th Amendment hung on the outcome of the vote in Tennessee. It was Rep. Harry Burn’s mother, Febb Ensminger Burn, who saved the day. Her son was an anti-suffrage vote until he received a letter that morning from his mother:
“Dear Son, Hurrah, and vote for suffrage…Don’t forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the ‘rat’ in ratification. Your mother.”
His vote changed the history of women in America. The grande dame of suffrage ,Elizabeth Cady Stanton, said, “the vote is the right by which all others rights are gained”.
Names to remember:
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880):
Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Mott’s Quaker background helped shape her belief in the equality of men and women and inspired her participation in the abolitionist movement. Hr interest in women’s rights intensified in 1840 when she was denied a seat at the world Anti-Slavery Convention in London because of her gender. There she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was to become a co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The erstwhile president of the American Equal Rights Association, Mott pushed for women’s suffrage though her 1850 work, Discourse on Women, as well as the hundreds of speeches and sermons she delivered across the country.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902):
Born in Johnston, New York, co-authored the Seneca Falls Convention’s “Declaration of Sentiments,” which included women’s voting rights among its tenets. Following the Civil War, she and Susan B. Anthony led an unsuccessful effort to have Congress include universal suffrage in the 14th and 15th Amendments. In 1869, Stanton, Anthony and Mott founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, which successfully lobbied for the 19th Amendment. Staton served asa President of both groups. The prolific writer also co-authored the multi-volume History of Woman Suffrage with fellow New York State activists Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906):
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, relocated to Rochester with her Quaker family in 1845. Anthony’s experiences being rebuffed in the Temperance movement because of her gender convinced her that women wouldn’t be able to influence public affairs until they had the right to vote. Anthony forwarded the suffrage cows through her newspaper The Revolution, her countless speaking tours and the statements she made before Congress from 1869 until her death in 1905.
