Frederick Douglass and the Women's Rights Movement

Douglass first met Susan B. Anthony in 1845, but his direct involvement with the movement for women's suffrage really started after he moved to Rochester with his family in 1847. He was one of only 32 men who supported Elizabeth Katie Stanton's resolution that women be allowed to vote. Douglass took those ideas back with him to the movement for abolition and presided at National Convention of Colored Friedman in Cleveland.