Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Courtesy Smithsonian Institution

The organized struggle for woman suffrage began in 1848 with the world's first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. The men and women who attended passed a "Declaration of Sentiments," modeled on the Declaration of Independence, and twelve forceful resolutions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton introduced the most controversial of the resolutions, votes for women. In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the National Woman Suffrage Association.