Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist, a leader of the women's rights movement in the United States. In 1848 she was the main force behind the Seneca Falls Convention and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments, whose grievances included the denial of women's right to vote. After opposing the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to Black men but not to women, she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869 and became its first president. She wrote most of the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage and of The Woman's Bible (1895–1898).