CSPAN3 American And British Suffrage Movements April 23, 2017
States, there is dispute among historians on when the movement actually began. Most people position it to 1848. And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglas, the famed orator, did, and he defended it. But it was...