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Poetry Slam ~Women's Rights

~__Elizabeth Cady Stanton__ __~Susan B. Anthony__
 * made- Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
 * Stanton argued for women's rights to higher education, to professional life, to the ownership of property, and to obtain a divorce
 * July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls Convention- this two day convention launched the organized womne's rights movement - first public meeting about women's rights in the United States - Frederick Douglass
 * she was involved with the temperance movement
 * In 1854, she devoted herself to the antislavery movement serving from 1856 to the outbreak of the civil war,1861. Here, she served as an agent for the American Anti-slavery Society
 * In 1872, Susan demanded that women be given the same civil and political rights that had been extended to black males under the 14th and 15th amendments
 * Later, she led a group of women to the polls in Rochester to test the right of women to vote

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