many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by

her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of

great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role

in the women’s rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas,

“She was the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies ad documents.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 into an affluent family in Johnstown, New York. Now,

while Stanton was growing up, she tried to imitate her brother’s academic achievements due to

the fact that her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred their sons to their

daughters. In trying to copy her male siblings, she got an extraordinary education: she went to

Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and mathematics; she learned how to ride and manage a

horse; she became a skilled debater; and she attended the Troy Female Seminary in New York

where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy. However, it wasn’t her

goals, and they did this in 1890 forming the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

And with this belief and as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, she went

and ideologies, and the general public, leading her to publish The Women’s Bible in 1895, a

became allies to fight the crusade for women’s rights because the female delegates attending the

Woman Suffrage, a collection of writings about the struggles of the movements, but it didn’t stop

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