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1848
In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, men and women met to discuss the Declaration of Sentiments. At that meeting, Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared that women and men were equal and that women should be able to vote. The meeting is often considered the beginning of the suffrage movement -- the coordinated effort to fight for women's right to vote. In 1869, Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony. A later version of this organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1890 and focused on ensuring women's right to vote in the states. |