July 19, 1848 - The first Women's Rights Convention in the U.S. was held at Seneca Falls, New York. Its “Declaration of Sentiments” launched the movement of women to be included in the constitution.

The Declaration used as a model the U.S. Declaration of Independence, demanding that the rights of women as individuals be acknowledged and respected by society. It was signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men.

The impetus came from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, both of whom had been excluded, along with all the other female American delegates, from the World Anti-Slavery Convention (London, 1840) because of their sex.

Frederick Douglass, the former slave and abolitionist leader attended the convention and supported the resolution for women’s suffrage. When suffrage finally became a reality in 1920, seventy-two years after this first organized demand in 1848, only one signer of the Seneca Falls Declaration, Charlotte Woodward, then a young worker in a glove manufactory, had lived long enough to cast her first ballot.

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To celebrate the anniversary of Seneca Falls.

From one of my favourite ever albums

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From a road flanked with hemlock and cedar

Page from a Seneca Falls Notebook
JC Alfier

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https://thebigwindowsreview.com/2024/05/21/jc-alfier-page-from-a-seneca-falls-notebook/

#Ms #Magazine Has Been #Fighting for the #ERA Since Its #Inception.

Last year, a group of over 300 #activists—half of whom were under 25—gathered in #SenecaFalls, #NewYork, to celebrate 100 years since the initial signing of the #ERA.

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https://msmagazine.com/2023/09/22/ms-magazine-equal-rights-amendment/

Am 19. Juli 1848, heute vor 175 Jahren, begann in Seneca Falls die erste Frauenrechtskonferenz.

Die zweitägige Seneca Falls Convention im US-Bundesstaat New York, bei der am Ende 100 Personen ein Manifest unterzeichneten, das die soziale und rechtliche Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern und insbesondere das Frauenwahlrecht forderte, gilt als Beginn der Frauenbewegung.

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