An Era of Reform Who would have known that what first started off as a hand-full of people at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 would snowball into an all-out rebellion against the cruel and unjust treatment of women? The woman's rights movement owes its success to the brilliant techniques used by Women's rights activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, people who single-handedly brought the issue of Women's Rights from the kitchen …
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…set a stage for the drastic social and political reform which was to come. After over 70 years of fighting and protesting, the Women's rights movement, which was originally made up of less than 1000 members, achieved their ultimate goal of Women's suffrage. The movement took the world by storm, gaining over a million members by the 1900, and it will forever be proof that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can, and will, change the world.