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The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts , the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including ...
October 15–16: Second National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Brinley Hall in Worcester. [5] 1852. May 26: Ohio Women's Convention at Massillon. [8] June 2–3: Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester. [9] September 8–10: Third National Women's Rights Convention, held in Syracuse, New York. [5] 1853
On October 14, 1853, following the National Woman's Rights Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, Stone and Lucretia Mott addressed Cincinnati's first women's rights meeting, arranged by Henry Blackwell, a local businessman from a family of capable women, who had taken an interest in Stone. After that successful meeting, Stone accepted Blackwell's ...
By the time of the second National Women's Rights Convention in 1851, the demand for women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the United States women's rights movement. [44] A Rochester Women's Rights Convention was held in Rochester, New York two weeks later, organized by local women who had attended the one in Seneca Falls. Both ...
The Appendix of Volume II of the History of Woman Suffrage, whose editors include Stanton and Anthony, reprints a lengthy newspaper article about the League's founding convention, including the adoption of this resolution: "Resolved, That the following be the official title and the pledge of the League—the pledge to be signed by all applicants for membership: 'Women's Loyal National League ...
The act was finally passed in Congress in 1920 after much commotion and action, giving women nationwide the right to vote. Fifty-one years later in 1971, August 26 was first recognized as National ...
Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, Rochester, New York; National Women's Rights Convention, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series; Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, Salem, Ohio; Worcester Women's Rights Convention of 1851, Worcester, Massachusetts, second in the series; Syracuse Women's Rights Convention of ...
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