women's rights movement
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Riggs knew what he was doing in challenging King, a player whose public figure was tied into the ever-growing women's rights movement.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
The play, an imaginative account of a group of women banding together in a gymnasium during the early days of the women’s rights movement, begins with a performer checking in on us.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
The resulting court case was a major milestone for the women’s rights movement.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024
He also embraced the women’s rights movement, helped formerly enslaved people fleeing to freedom with the Underground Railroad, and bought a printing press so he could run his own newspaper, The North Star.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024
In Philadelphia, the Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded by, among others, Charlotte Forten, granddaughter of black abolition pioneer James Forten, and Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two future leaders of the women’s rights movement.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
