Recognizing the contributions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the women's suffrage movement.

Encourages all Americans to remember the contributions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the women's suffrage movement. Calls for activities to commemorate the women's suffrage movement.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 391 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 391

 Recognizing the contributions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady 
               Stanton to the women's suffrage movement.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2000

 Mr. Boehlert (for himself and Ms. Slaughter) submitted the following 
   concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the contributions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady 
               Stanton to the women's suffrage movement.

Whereas Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the most 
        influential leaders of the women's suffrage movement;
Whereas many Americans do not realize the contributions Susan B. Anthony and 
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton made to the United States and to the movement for 
        women's right to vote;
Whereas Elizabeth Cady Stanton was instrumental in organizing the first women's 
        suffrage convention, which took place on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, 
        New York, and was attended by 300 women and men, including Lucretia Mott 
        and Frederick Douglass;
Whereas at the that convention, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of 
        Sentiments, drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which outlined the main 
        issues and goals for the emerging women's suffrage movement;
Whereas in 1866, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton together formed the 
        American Equal Rights Association, dedicated to securing the ballot for 
        African American men and all women;
Whereas in 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National 
        Woman Suffrage Association, a women-led organization devoted to 
        obtaining a Federal women's suffrage constitutional amendment;
Whereas although neither Susan B. Anthony nor Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived to 
        see the day when women were allowed to vote, their relentless years of 
        work should not be forgotten;
Whereas the 80th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women 
        voting rights was August 26, 2000; and
Whereas the American people will vote on November 7, 2000, to elect a new 
        President and a new Congress: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) encourages all Americans to remember the contributions 
        of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to women's 
        suffrage; and
            (2) urges the President to issue a proclamation calling on 
        the people of the United States to conduct appropriate 
        ceremonies, activities, and programs to commemorate the women's 
        suffrage movement.
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