Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was a key social reformer and activist in the women's suffrage movement, seeking voting rights for women. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony was responsible for starting the American Equal Rights Association in 1866. The constitution of the American Equal Rights Association stated the organization's purpose: "to secure Equal Rights to all American citizens, especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color or sex." It was a group that grew out of the National Women's Rights Convention at the 11th such convention, held in New York in 1866.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a prominent thinker during the Enlightenment -- when the idea of a woman being a prominent thinker was still not widely accepted. She wrote important works such as <em>Thoughts on the Education of Daughters </em>(1787) and <em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman </em>(1792). Wollstonecraft applied principles of reason to the role of women and the rights for girls to be educated for active participation in society and civic life.
