Overview

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. Together they organized the nation's first Women's Rights Convention in 1848. The men and women at this meeting passed a Declaration of Sentiments. This series of resolutions demanded more rights for women, including better educational and job opportunities and the right to vote.

This fictitious interview with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton is based on their biographies and histories of the Women's Rights Convention. It expresses the women's views and in some cases uses their actual words. Both worked for legal, professional, educational, social, and economic equality for women for the rest of their lives. Lucretia Mott even came to accept Elizabeth Cady Stanton's conviction that woman suffrage should be one of their movement's goals. But neither of them lived to see the ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. It was ratified 72 years after the Seneca Falls Convention had demanded it.