Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (born 1815)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American suffragist (1815–1902)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of…