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Sep 25, 2021 · Sep 25, 2021. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand delivered the keynote speech for the dedication of the “Ripples of Change” statues honoring the legacy of the suffrage movement in Seneca Falls ...
Jun 18, 2021 · Date: June 21, 2021 Contact: Janine Waller, 315-568-0024 Seneca Falls, NY— Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce Virtual Convention Days 2021: From the Pages to the Streets, a series of online programs being held July 16-18, 2021. Convention Days has been a signature event in Seneca Falls for many years.
Oct 2, 2021 · Today, speaking at the Women's March and Rally for Reproductive Rights at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, Governor Kathy Hochul reaffirmed New York's commitment to upholding women's rights and the need to continue the fight to protect these rights as other states work to limit them.
Aug 19, 1999 · On the morning of July 19, 1848, the 19-year-old glove maker drove in a horse-drawn wagon to the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the upstate New York town of Seneca Falls. To her surprise, Woodward found dozens of other women and a group of men waiting to enter the chapel, all of them as eager as she to learn what a discussion of “the social ...
The second episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to equality matters being debated today. We explore the Movement’s progress through the lineage of Coline Jenkins, the great-great granddaughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The beginning of the American women’s suffrage movement is often marked by either the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, or the earlier 1840 World Antislavery Convention in London, where Lucretia Mott and five other American women delegates were barred from participating after making the long journey.
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Sep 15, 2021 · Eight years later, Stanton and Mott organized the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, beginning the coordinated effort for women’s rights in the United States. Around 300 attendees met in Wesleyan Chapel to discuss the social condition and rights, or lack thereof, of women.
