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A gathering that would spark an organized movement to change the status of women in America

The Seneca Falls Convention was seen as the platform for women's rights. It was designed for women and people of color to have a political voice.

When the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1920, American women won the right to vote. This was a hard-won victory.

The rights of women have improved significantly over the course of the 20th century. Here is a brief introduction to the suffrage movement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped found the American woman's rights movement, led the Seneca Falls Convention, wrote The Woman's Bible and brought about change for women.

The proclamation that all men are created equal took a long time to fulfill in a nation that originally denied political rights to all but propertied white males.

In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment assured freed slaves the right to vote. At that time a woman's right to vote was still not universal.

A brief history of the Suffragists fight for the right to vote. Lydia Taft, Abigail Adams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony