Suffragists and Those Who Opposed Them

Although Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, women wouldn''t be allowed to vote in the United States until many years later. Suffragists, the women who fought for the vote, faced great opposition from several forces, even other groups of women. In 1848, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and numerous other pioneering suffragists met in...