Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speaks

Betsey Means of WomanLore comes to tell the story of Elizabeth C. Stanton. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman’s movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women’s rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman’s rights and woman’s suffrage movements in the United States.