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Who organized both a national and an international temperance union in the late 1800's? She was an advocate of women's suffrage, and her statue represents Illinois in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Who helped organize the first national convention on equal rights and helped establish the American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for women's right to vote?
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Who wrote the book, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women?" The book, published in 1792, was one of the first books to claim that women should have equality with men. Her daughter wrote the famous horror novel Frankenstein in 1818.
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Who helped found two antislavery groups as well as organize the first women's rights meeting in the United States in 1848? She became a Quaker minister and helped found Swarthmore College.
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Who wrote an essay called "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" in 1838, one of the first works by an American on the subject?
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Who was one of the first leaders of the campaign for women's rights? Her wearing of bloomers became a symbol of the movement. She was the first woman to be pictured on a U.S. coin in general circulation.
