Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States.
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SOURCE CITATION: Michals, Debra. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2017. Date accessed.
Debra Michals is the Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Merrimack College, and a women's/gender historian. Her work focuses on 20th century U.S. women's history, as well as LGBTQ history and the histories of people of color.