Women's Rights Movement Leaders and Milestones

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely regarded as the "mother of feminism" for her groundbreaking work, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", published in 1792.

The Seneca Falls Convention, held on July 19 and 20, 1848, is considered the birthplace of the women's rights movement in the United States.

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872.

The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.

Sojourner Truth was a prominent African American abolitionist and women's rights activist who spoke out against slavery and for the rights of women.

Sojourner Truth delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

Rose Schneiderman delivered her famous "Bread and Roses" speech at a rally of striking garment workers in New York City in 1912.

Millicent Fawcett was a prominent British women's suffrage activist and leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.