#PowerfulWomen

Image from the Smithsonian

Image from the Smithsonian

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1889

The women’s suffrage movement is considered to have officially started in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women’s rights activists produced a document from this convention, the Declaration of Sentiments, which served as the first platform statement for suffragists in America.