in 1848, the women's suffrage movement began on a national level. a convention in seneca falls, new york was organized by abolitionists elizabeth cady stanton and lucretia mott that also demanded a woman's right to vote. susan b. anthony, along with other activists, joined mott and stanton in forming organizations that demanded the right to vote. many of the early orgainzers never lived to see the passage of the nineteenth amendment some 70 years later.