Although women may have some equal rights now, in the 1840s was a time of struggle for women, which empowered them to make a women’s right movement. That was the beginning of women suffrage to occur in the United states of America. The founders of this movement were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. It all started when Lucretia was in secondary school and she was learning what was being done to the colored people. (nps, pars. 1) The fact that colored people were not treated right made her upset and then also finding out that women were being paid less for their gender was absurd to her. She believed that all people were created equal no matter the color of skin or if one was man or female. She and about 30 other female abolitionists
