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At the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were unable to take part in any discussions. The women's presence was overlooked by the men. That was when they decided to have a women's rights convention back in America.
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Three hundred people attended the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which set the agenda for decades of women's activism
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Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" This declares how she is still a human being and she needs to be treated with respect, even if she wasn't a man. Women back then got so little respect that it was almost shameful to be female.
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The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention was held in New York, and a merger between women suffragists and the American Anti-Slavery Association was made. They called themselves the American Equal Rights Association.
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Slaves got the rights of the 14th Amendment, and then they were able to vote. The Amendment officially made sure to use the word "male" just to make it clear that women couldn't vote. Disagreements over their action lead to a split in the movement.
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The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, and even though it never specified a specific gender women who tried to vote were turned away.
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Susan B. Anthony was arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting just because she was a woman. She refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense."
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Women in the Washington territory were allowed to vote. Women suffragists came to Liverpool to create the International Council of Women.
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Suffragist Alice Paul organized 8,000 women for a parade through Washington.
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For the third time the House voted to enfranchise women. The Senate finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment, and women suffragists began their ratification campaign.
