Womens Rights
The Womens Rights Movement lasted from 1848 to 1998. ... This movement gave women full civil rights in this country. The womens rights movement started in July 13, 1848 in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was invited to tea with for friends. ... The purpose of this meeting was "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman. ... " The First Womens Rights Convention was held and the Declaration of Sentiments and 12 resolutions discussed. ... Then, in 1923 Alice Paul, the leader of the National Womans Party, she drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for the United States Constitution. ... The second wave of the Womens Rights Movement did happen in the 1960s, but was not initiated in the 1960s.