Reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot, from a daguerreotype 1856. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-48965 DLC
Reform in America, 1829-1850
Reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
her daughter, Harriot, from a daguerreotype 1856. Library of
Congress, LC-USZ62-48965 DLC
The Women's Suffrage movement dates to the July, 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Portraits of key figures can be found in the National Portrait Gallery's Seneca Falls Convention presentation. Images and other information on early female leaders is available from the Library of Congress's Women Suffrages Pictures and pamphlets other information appear at the Votes for Women Exhibit. The Seneca Fall Convention is also the subject of the Library's Today in History features for July 19 and July 20. The struggles of pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell are noted in the second feature for October 19, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the second feature for November 12, and Lucretia Mott is the feature for January 3.
More information can be found at the site for the Ken Burns PBS television presentation "Not for Ourselves Alone."
For Abolitionism see Slavery and Race Page
Multi-faceted reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott is introduced with links on the Library of Congress, Today in History, presentation for January 3 and Susan B. Anthony appears in the feature for March 8. Sojourner Truth is the second feature for November 26. Education reformer Bronson Alcott, better known as the father of "Little Women's" Louisa May Alcott is profiled on November 26.
This page was last updated
August 21, 2002
Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives.