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Mary Wollstonecraft ()

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the most significant book in the early feminist movement. Her tract “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” laid down a clear moral and practical basis for extending human and political rights to women.

Mary Wollstonecraft was a true pioneer in the struggle for female suffrage.

Sojourner Truth (–)

African-American abolitionist and women’s rights campaigner.

Biography womens rights activists in american

In , she gave a famous extemporaneous speech “Ain’t I a woman?” which supported equal rights for blacks and women. She argued equal rights for women were &#;for the benefit of the whole creation, not only the women, but all the men on the face of the earth, for they were the mother of them.

Margaret Fuller ( &#; )

Margaret Fuller was an American women&#;s rights advocate, associated with the Transcendentalist movement.

Her book Women in the Nineteenth Century was influential in changing perceptions about men and women and was one of the most important early Feminist w