1. Suffragist: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Studied law with her father, an attorney, but wasn't allowed to practice law!!
Helped organize: SENECA FALLS CONVENTION (1st women's rights meeting)
Worked with Susan B. Anthony
Wanted women to have:
right to own property
right to get divorced
right to vote
Helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association--NWSA
1st woman to run for Congress--rec'd only 24 votes out of 12,000!!!

2. Suffragist: Susan B. Anthony
became a teacher
Goals
equal pay for women teachers
coeducation (boys & girls in same class)
college education for women
suffrage for women
right of married women to control their earnings
as a woman, forbidden from speaking at meetings
leader in New York Women's Rights Association
died before 19th amendment passed giving women the right to vote--known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment

3. Suffragist: Sojourner Truth
born Isabella Baumfree, a slave in NY
children sold into slavery
gained freedom when NY abolished slavery--30 yrs. old
servant in NYC
preached on street corners on women's rights
"Children, I talk to God, and God talks to me."
traveled around the country speaking to audiences
suffered abuse and physical attacks

4. Abolitionist: Frederick Douglass
born a slave
but escaped North to freedom in 1838.
became a celebrated abolitionist speaker
used his lecture fees to aid fugitive slaves
worked in England to earn money to buy his freedom
published North Star, anti-slavery newspaper
headed the Rochester station of the underground railroad.

5. Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison
goal: IMMEDIATE end of slavery
slavery a sin in the eyes of God
believed in non-violent methods
sued for libel, jailed and nearly lynched
published anti-slavery newspaper,
The Liberator
organized American Anti-Slavery Society
1854--burned a copy of the Constitution because it did not outlaw slavery

6. Abolitionist: Harriet Tubman
born a slave in Maryland
brutally beaten
sisters sold
escaped to Pennsylvania
returned to guide her family to freedom
famous conductor on Underground Railroad
19 trips...led 300+ slaves to freedom
$40,000 reward for her capture--never caught
called "Moses of her people"