Famous women's rights advocates

1. Women’s Rights Women
Jake Miller & Ryan Coleman
Cumberland Valley School District

2. Sojourner Truth – 1 of 3
 Real name is “Isabella
Baumfree”
 Slave in NY state
 Husband beaten to death
 Forced to marry & bear
children to a diff. slave
 Escapes a year before NY
outlaws slavery
 First black woman to win in
court – sues former owner
for rights to her son

3. Sojourner Truth – 2 of 3
 Garrison prints her
autobiography
 Very bold woman – once
showed her “lady parts” to
someone who accused her
of being a man
 Goes on a speaking tour
 Most famous speech is “Ain’t
I A Woman?”

4. S. Truth – “Ain’t I A Woman” Speech
 That man over there says that women need to be helped into
carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place
everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-
puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
 Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as
much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did
your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From
God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
 If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the
world upside down all alone, these women together ought to
be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now
they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

5. Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3
 PA Teacher & Quaker
Minister
 Began as abolitionist
 Joined women’s rights
movement after:
1st Learning men paid 3x
as much
2nd Being segregated at
World’s Anti-Slavery
conference in Britain

6. Lucretia Mott – 2 of 3
 Met Garrison & Elizabeth
Cady Stanton at World’s
Anti-Slavery convention
 The 2 would create the first
women’s rights convention –
Seneca Falls, 1848
 While there, Frederick
Douglass became a strong
supporter of women’s rights

7. Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3

8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 1 of 3
 NY Activist
 Dad a judge and Congressman
who “taught her like a man”
 Graduated tops at her school,
but not allowed to go to college
b/c she was a woman
 Married & traveled US
 Met & inspired by major
abolitionists and women’s rights
activists
 You name them, she met them!

9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 2 of 3
 Moved to Seneca Falls in 1847 for
husband’s poor health
 Bored, so begins to read & write
 Inspired by TJ’s Dec. of
Independence; writes
Declaration of Rights &
Sentiments for women’s rights
 After Civil War, will oppose black
voting rights because women
were EXCLUDED
 Will inspire Susan B. Anthony

10. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 3 of 3

11. Susan B. Anthony – 1 of 3
 NY Teacher & Quaker
 Family was wealthy; lost it all in
Van Buren’s Panic of 1837
 Befriends F. Douglass in 1847
 Met E.C. Stanton in 1851
 Began wearing fancy dresses,
but stopped b/c men focused
more on that than her ideas
 Her speaking at 1853 teachers’
convention was huge issue

12. Susan B. Anthony – 2 of 3
 Would break from abolitionist
movement when she saw sexism
in male abolitionists
 Formed the Women’s
Temperance Movement
 Arrested for voting in Election of
1872 (because she was a
woman)
 Would have the legacy of
organizing the core of the
women’s rights movement

13. Susan B. Anthony – 3 of 3