SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10/AP) — In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20 in the Finger Lakes region. The women’s rights convention brought together a group of brave women who ...
During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.
(WDBJ) - On this day in 1848, women’s rights activists gathered at the Seneca Falls Convention for a second day. On the previous day, convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton had read the ...
A Seneca Falls park central to the women’s rights movement faces a $10M maintenance backlog and lands on a national ...
More than 150 years before the famous phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal," would be belted on Broadway stages, the line was changed to include women for ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Events will be held this weekend in Seneca Falls, celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the birthplace of the women’s rights movement “Right here in ...