Who were other leaders of the womens rights movement?
By their example, leading abolitionists like Abby Kelley Foster, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke Weld, and Sarah Pugh showed women how to claim their rights, and they influenced the movement over the course of their lives. Stanton traced her awareness of the cause to her acquaintance with Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), another abolitionist, with whom she organized the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention in 1848. Ernestine L. Rose (1810-1892) set the example of lobbying to change state laws about married women’s property. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was another pioneer and a long-time leader, who organized a rival to Stanton and Anthony’s National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Through her American Woman Suffrage Association and her newspaper, the Woman’s Journal, Stone, and her husband, Henry Blackwell (1825-1909), and later their daughter, achieved national leadership until women won the vote in 1920. Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) came into the movement in the 1850s and held positions
