Important+People

= = =**Important People involved in Women's Suffrage**= [|Mary Wollstonecraft]- She wrote the first book that claimed that men and women were not treated equally. [|Susan B. Anthony] -Let the effort to grant women the right to vote in the united states. [|Elizabeth Stanton]- Was known as one of the most important women's rights leaders. Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. [|Lucy Stone] -She was a suffragist. Best known as the first women who kept her last name after marriage. [|Lucretia Mott]- Introduced Stanton into the women's rights movement and helped right the Declaration of Sentiments. [|Grimke Sisters]- Were very involved in the women's rights movement. [|Emma Willard]- Founded the Emma Willard School where she educated many women about women's rights. [|Esther Morris]- She fought for the territory of Wyoming to pass a women's suffrage law. This led other states to follow. [|Julia Howe]- Introduced the idea of Mother's Day. And she was the first president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. [|Paulina Davis]- She was a major role in helping women vote and own property.
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