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... women's rights in 1920. This became the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Stanton was born in 1815 in Johnstown, N.Y. and graduated from the Troy Female Seminary, known today as the Emma Willard School. In the 1930's she became interested in women's rights and abolishing slavery. Because of this, she met her husband, Henry B. Stanton. They were abolitionist leaders and they married ... ...
... , possessing both grace and wit, and was a natural leader, while privately she was quite introverted, with a fear of death, frequent nightmares, depressions, and anger. (Banner, 1) Stanton received her education at Emma Willard's Academy, known as Troy Female Seminary then ("Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, par 10), which supposedly offered the best female education of the time. (Foner, par 1) She spent much of her ... ...
... actions in Boston. Many women throughout the fight for women's rights played influential roles in the struggle for women's suffrage. Additional famous women who promoted the movement were Abigail Adams, Emma Hart Willard, Jane Adams, Ellen Gates Starr, Frances Willard, Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul, and Lucy Burns. There were also anti-suffragist organizations. The National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage was ... ...
