Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine
One of the most influential women of her generation, Philadelphia Quaker Lucretia Mott from the 1830s through the 1860s played a leading role in the American abolition movement and women’s rights movement. An organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention that gave birth to the American women’s rights movement, Mott co-authored its Declarations of Sentiments, modeled after the American Declaration of Independence.
