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This year’s Convention Days celebration in Seneca Falls promises a weekend of lively history, scholarly insight, and ...
This weekend's Convention Days at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls will mark 175 years since the first Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention in 1848.
Convention to discuss the Social, Civil, and Religious Condition of Woman, was held at the village of Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848.
Much has changed since 1848 — and that's the surprising part. What's not changed, while not surprising, is dismaying. ... Dismayed, outraged, but not surprised? The women who called together the ...
The attendees of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention fought to secure women’s suffrage and equality. For many of them, that meant opposing abortion.
Object Details associated person Anthony, Susan B. Description Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights ...
Jeanne Giovannini’s life changed through the movement she celebrates each day. The president of the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls graduated from high school, she said, at ...
Yet while the right to vote became the central cause of the 1848 convention, Mott had no plans to cast a ballot herself. Indeed, she was generally uninterested in American electoral politics, ...