Major leaders of Women's Rights

Major leaders of Women's Rights

Two major leaders of the Women's rights movement were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrietta Mott. When Staton traveled with her husband to a convention, she met Lucrietta Mott, they both were inspired to hold their own conventions. Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life, took the name Sojourner Truth when she decided to sojourn throughout the country preaching, and later, arguing for abolition. At a women’s rights convention in 1851, the tall, muscular black woman was hissed at in disapproval. Because Truth supported abolition, some participants feared her speaking would make their own cause less popular. But Truth won applause with her speech that urged men to grant women their rights.