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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which women’s rights activists did Sojourner Truth meet?
A
Susan B. Anthony
B
Malala Yousafzai
C
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D
Rosa Parks
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Although Truth initially worked alongside both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass, she distanced herself as Stanton vocally opposed the 15th Amendment and Douglass urged women to wait their turn.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women’s rights movement who, in 1848, formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States. Stanton received a superior education at home, at the Johnstown Academy, and at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary, from which she graduated in 1832.

Detailed explanation-3: -Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneers of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1891. Perhaps the most well-known women’s rights activist in history, Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, to a Quaker family in Massachusetts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seneca Falls Convention, assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia Mott, conceived and directed the convention.

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