The woman that most people think of as the Mother of Feminism is Susan B. Anthony. She not only joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in holding the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1848, but she went on to train the next generation of activists, by taking on “nieces” whom she mentored and helped them establish themselves as leaders in the Suffrage Movement. These younger women called themselves “Aunt Susan’s Girls” as they grew to lead the Suffrage Movement.

One of these, Carrie Chapman Catt, became the leader of one of the largest suffrage organizations in the country: National American Woman’s Suffrage Association.