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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls , New York , it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.
Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, were important sites in the history of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, as the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20. The convention drew over 300 attendees, [2] many of whom signed the Declaration of Sentiments which was produced as a part of the convention. [3]
Lucretia Mott moved the adoption of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, which was read to the convention, debated, then referred to a committee to draft a new declaration. Antoinette Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, Ernestine Rose and Lucy Stone worked to shape a new declaration, and the result was read at the end of the ...
The school was built on Clinton Street in Seneca Falls, and is named for former Board of Education President Frank Knight. The school previously housed all elementary grades, including Grades K-5. In 1982, the school switched to intermediate grades due to space issues.
Many of its organizers had participated in the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, two weeks earlier in Seneca Falls, a smaller town not far away. The Rochester convention elected Abigail Bush as its presiding officer, making it the first U.S. public meeting composed of both sexes to be presided by a woman. This ...
Mar. 11—CHIPPEWA FALLS — Two incumbents and a challenger will face off for two school board seats in the Chippewa Falls Area School District on April 2. Both Steven Olson and Sharon McIlquham ...
Marc Murren, Bobbie Tibbetts, Gail Swenson, Pat Starr and Stuart Willett are all vying for two, two-year terms on the Sioux Falls School District Board of Education.
There will be a new superintendent for Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools starting Aug. 1, but the decision was far from unanimous. The school board voted 3-2 during a special meeting Tuesday to hire ...