 After the divorce, Clay became aware of the equities between married men and women and their property rights.This inequality galvanized Clay's older sisters, Mary and Sarah "Sallie" Clay Bennett into joining the women's rights movement, as well as Laura and her younger sister, Annie (later Mrs. Dabney Crenshaw, a co-founder of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia).The 11th Annual Meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) held in Louisville, Kentucky on October 26 and 27, 1881.