The myth of Seneca Falls was a book about the memory of the women’s suffrage campaign. This book revealed the founding mothers’ of the American feminism such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. It also informed us about other men and women who struggled for women’s rights as well. The story as we know it women was not given equal rights as men; they were treated unfairly because they were females. Throughout the book there were American women who rented a stand for themselves and other women in America. Women were finally ready to face the men and state their belief about how men and women should be created equal. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women’s rights convention in history. This convention lead and created by the founding mothers’ and their peers popularized this myth during the second half …show more content…
It was the outgrowth of nearly a decade of female activity in social reform. Lisa Tetrault the author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 wrote one of the best books I have read about women’s right to vote. At the origin of her book she gave us the early history over women’s suffrage for those who may have forgotten about some of the important details on how it all became a movement. This was a good idea because you wouldn’t fully understand without knowing the early history. Tetrault wrote this book to recover the truth about what started the suffrage movement and was the Seneca Falls just a myth as people said. She desired to investigate the myths of American history. An example she presented in her book was that we know, that the civil rights movement did not really begin when Rosa Parks, tired and fed up, spontaneously refused to give up he seat at the front of the bus. She wanted to find evidence to show her what was genuine and what was just a story being told. Tetrault stated, “That tale has so successfully erased its own