encountered discrimination as a woman3. Her strong friendship with feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved both crucial for herself and for the feminist crusade. Influenced by Stantons vigorous defense of womens rights, Anthony helped found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866. For the remainder of her life she was dedicated to this cause. She helped establish the National Suffrage Association in 1869 and in 1872 she was arrested for attempting to vote, claiming that the provisions of the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments applied to all citizens, male and female4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the muscle behind this powerful duo. Stanton, a wife and mother, and Anthony brought attention to the issue of womens rights to the national level. Stanton was a advocate of more liberal divorce laws, less restrictive clothing for women, coeducation, and the right of married women to control their property. Stanton was the first president of both the National Womans suffrage Association and the National American Woman's Suffrage Association. Along with Anthony, Stanton wrote many books on womens suffrage5. Many other people were responsible for the success of the Womens Suffrage movement as well. Less known activists include Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, and Lucretia Coffin Mott. Mott was an American Quaker preacher, abolitionist, and leading womens rights advocate. She became the third piece to Anthonys and Stantons team. Mott became a symbol of the moral force of feminism and other kinds of reform in the nineteenth century. Mott, along with Stanton, organized one of the most important events of the womens suffrage movement in the 1800s6.The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 . The first womens rights assembly in the United States, was organized by Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and met at Seneca Falls, N.Y., o...
