The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

They were just some of the first generation of suffragists: Elizabeth C. Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Remond, Susan B. Anthony.

They include: -- Philosopher Cicero in 106 B.C. -- Feminist/abolitionist Lucretia Mott in 1793 -- U.S. first lady Grace Coolidge in 1879 -- Writer J.R.R. Tolkien in 1892 -- Football Hall of Fame ...