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An Anniversary Worth Shouting About
163 years ago, on July 19th at 11 AM, the first women’s rights convention got underway in Seneca Falls, New York. 300 people attended, including 40 men, and from that gathering a document emerged, The Declaration of Sentiments. It contained 11 resolutions demanding religious, political and economic equality for women, and most radical of all, the right to vote. The press covering the convention gave it terrible reviews, with this printed in the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript: “A woman is nobody. A wife is everything. The ladies of Philadelphia … are resolved to maintain their rights as Wives, Belles, Virgins and Mothers.” Here’s to progress.
Image: Voice, 1993, by Ken Miki
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