Eliza Ann Gardner
“...{I}f you commence to talk about the superiority of men, if you persist in telling us that after the fall of man we were put under your feet and that we are intended to be subject to your will, we cannot help you in New England one bit.’’
— Eliza Ann Gardner (1831-1922) a Boston African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women's movement leader in 1884. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), was a strong advocate for women's equality within the church, and was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
