The National Woman Suffrage Association is Founded

On this day, May 15th in 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York.

As part of her rhetoric to fight for the right to vote, Elizabeth Cady Staton used the metaphor of the original garden when she said,

"Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy."