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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the NY Legislature, 1854,
Read by Jessica Lacher-Feldman:

"The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of…

“The Times that Try Men’s Souls” by Maria Chapman
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at the Unitarian Church, Rochester, N.Y., August 2, 1848

Speech is read by Andrea Hickerson:

“The Times that Try Men’s…

Carrie Chapman Catt's address is read by Megan Mack:

"Is it not clear that American history makes woman suffrage inevitable? That full suffrage in twelve States makes its coming in all forty-eight States inevitable? That the spread of democracy…

Carrie Chapman Catt, The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Presidential Acceptance Speech, 1900

Carrie Chapman Catt's speech is read by Betty Wolfanger:

"Good friends, I should hardly be human if I did not feel gratitude and…

Hester Jeffrey, Eulogy at Susan B. Anthony's Funeral, Rochester, 1906

Hester Jeffrey's eulogy is read by Cheryl Sampson:

"We, the colored people of Rochester, join the world in mourning the loss of our true friend, Susan B. Anthony.…

Susan B. Anthony, to a convention of the Bricklayers’ and Masons’ International Union, held in Rochester, NY, on January 13, 1900

Susan B. Anthony's speech read by Juliee Decker:

"Help women to become enfranchised. Do this that we may be able…

Frederick Douglass, International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., 1888

Frederick Douglass' speech is read by Djed Snead:

"Mrs. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:— I come to this platform with unusual diffidence. Although I have long been…

Fannie Barrier Williams, Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the US since the Emancipation Proclamation, Chicago, 1893

Fannie Barrier Williams' speech is read by Sharitta Gross-Smith:

"Without further particularizing as to how this…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address at Seneca Falls, 1898
“What were the causes that roused women…”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address is read by Jessica Lacher-Feldman:

"What were the causes that roused women to the consideration of their political…

Susan B. Anthony's speech is read by Betty Wolfanger:

"While the nation is buoyant with patriotism, and all hearts are attuned to praise, it is with sorrow we come to strike the one discordant note, on this one-hundredth anniversary of our…