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Important People, Events and Organization. Womenâs Suffrageâ First-wave feminists were fighting for womenâs right to vote. The womenâs suffrage movement was in alignment with the Black Suffrage and the Abolitionist movement, due to the similiar goals of equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton â Avid suffragist and abolitionist.
Best known for starting the Second Wave of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique - an account of housewives' lives in which they subordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men; bestseller was an inspiration for many women to join the women's rights movement.