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Women's History Month Hero -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Mar 6th 2011 – 5:00AM

Courtesy of Meg Waite Clayton Meg Waite Clayton wrote "The Wednesday Sisters" and "The Language of Light." The fight for women's suffrage started, as so many things do, with women talking to each other around kitchen tables. The result was the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in July...

Susan B. Anthony: 5 Facts About the Legendary Women's Rights Pioneer

By Mary Phillips-SandyFeb 15th 2011 – 1:58PM

On this day in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Mass. The daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, Anthony went on to become a powerful voice for women's rights, a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and an activist in the anti-slavery and temperence movements. Surge Desk has five facts in honor of...

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  • 06/03/12 Don't take these rights for granted Source: Dunkirk Observer - Dunkirk NY Keeping abreast of historical anniversaries can be an intriguing hobby, particularly when seemingly unrelated events from different times and locations come together in some sort of a pattern.
  • 04/22/12 Women still have a ways to go Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the pioneering American feminist, found the Bible degrading to women, so she wrote her own version, The Woman's Bible.
  • 04/18/12 Accessible Archives Adds The Lily to Its Database... Source: eReleases Accessible Archives, Inc.®, a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the imminent availability of The Lily , the first newspaper published for women in the United States.
  • 04/14/12 8th grade research: Read 'em & weep Source: Plainview Daily Herald - Plainview TX Having worked as a journalist for the past 20-plus years, I know that all too well.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement.

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