4. Leading organizer of the Women’s Movement Founded organization to promote Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Dedicated life to inspiring other women to demand equal rights (gender equality) United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, when the series was halted due to poor public reception, and again in 1999. Susan B. Anthony

7. Pushed for full political equality for women, including the right to vote as well as gender equality Planned the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 and authored Declaration of Women’s Rights Wrote Women’s Bible which criticized organized religion for subordinating women Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sitting with Susan B. Anthony standing by her side.

11. Enslaved half of her life before earning her freedom Testified in court and before Congress on behalf of African-American’s Rights……“Ain’t I a woman” speech Well-traveled public speaker on such topics as women’s rights and abolition Sojourner Truth

12. I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too. I am as strong as any man…and Aint 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 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. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say. ” --Sojourner Truth

14. Lucretia Mott Pushed for women’s rights and abolition…first “feminist”……attended Seneca Falls Convention Grimke Sisters Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolition and women’s rights. Quakers did not believe in slavery.

16. Who? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass Where? Seneca Falls, New York When? July 19-20, 1848 *Why? To demand equality and women’s suffrage (publicized it) What? Wrote Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Gained support for the Women’s Rights Movement

17. “ I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls and pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods and lashed into obedience.” Dorothea Dix She worked to improve treatment and facilities for the mentally ill. She also urged rehabilitation for the mentally ill. Often worked in prisons.