PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Susan B. Anthony is a strong believer in women’s rights. She started organizing for equal pay as a teen schoolteacher. She became a leader of women’s suffrage. She traveled as a speaker throughout the U.S. and Europe. She also wrote a book about the suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was originally an abolitionist. She attended an anti-slavery convention in London in 1840. She was angry that women were not being treated as equals. She worked to fight for women's rights. She worked with another women and they were the organizers of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott was originally an abolitionist. She attended an anti-slavery convention in London in 1840. She was angry that they were treated differently than men at the convention. She worked together with Elizabeth Stanton. Together the fought for women's rights. They were the organizers of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State. She had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. Truth was a powerful and impassioned speaker whose legacy of feminism and racial equality still resonates today. She is perhaps best known for her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851.
