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Oct 21, 2024 · From a young age, Quaker Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) was raised in a household where she was encouraged to think for herself and to follow the leadings of her Inner Light. Mott’s conscience led her to become an outspoken abolitionist and advocate of the “free produce” movement, an attempt by northern consumers to boycott all goods grown ...
1 day ago · Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were the first two women in America to organize the women's rights convention in July 1848. Susan B. Anthony later joined the movement and helped form the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA) in May 1869.
Oct 25, 2024 · Truth was well known to the crowd, as she had been attending suffrage meetings—encouraged by movement leaders such as Lucretia Mott—at the same time she published her memoir Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), in which she recounted her life story from enslavement to freedom.
Oct 25, 2024 · The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19–20, 1848, was organized by activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott as the first public political meeting in the United States that advocated for women's rights.
- Lisa Iannucci
- 2020
Oct 25, 2024 · Massachusetts native Lucretia Mott is widely considered the primary founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement in America. A staunch progressive and lifelong abolitionist and advocate for women's rights, she began her career as a schoolteacher and Quaker minister who soon became known for her eloquent speeches.
- Lisa Iannucci
- 2020
Oct 21, 2024 · Notable as one of the most integrated anti-slavery groups, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society included white and Black co-founders, among them Lucretia Mott, Grace Bustill Douglass, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Hetty Reckless, Charlotte Forten, and her daughters Harriet, Sarah, and Margaretta. This group championed racial and sexual equity.
1 day ago · Lucretia Mott was suggested as the party's vice-presidential candidate – the first time that a woman had been proposed for federal executive office in the U.S. – and she received five votes from delegates at that convention.
