CSPAN3 American And British Suffrage Movements April 30, 2017
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 douglass, the famed orator did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other histor...