Final Exam People #7: Women's Rights Movement

Elizabeth Cady Staunton: co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention, attempted to attend the first Anti-Slavery Convention but was denied then eventually told she could sit in the back and be silent. Helped lead the National Women’s Suffrage Association. 

Lucrecia Mott: co-founder of the Seneca Falls convention, attempted to attend the first Anti-Slavery Convention but was denied then eventually told she could sit in the back and be silent.

Sojourner Truth: delivered the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the National Women’s Rights Convention

Susan B. Anthony: helped lead the National Women’s Suffrage Association

Betty Friedan: wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and challenged the idea that women should only be housewives. Helped found the National Organization for Women

Shirley Chisholm: helped found NOW and was the first African American woman elected to Congress

Alice Paul: former suffragette who proposed the first Equal Rights Act in 1923, which was a one-sentence amendment to the Constitution that said men and women would have equal rights

Martha Griffiths: proposed a second Equal Rights Act in 1972, which passed in Congress and was only ratified by 35 states so it did not get added to the Constitution.

Phyllis Schlafly: conservative constitutional lawyer who opposed Griffiths’ ERA, saying it would overturn many important accomplishments of the first wave of american feminism and was scared it would mean women could be drafted to war

Margaret Sanger: formed the American Birth Control League in 1921 which eventually became Planned Parenthood. Her goal was to educate Americans about birth control and contraceptives and give women options.