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African American women began making inroads to higher education after the Civil War. Frances “Fannie” Barrier Williams was the first African American to graduate from Brockport Normal School (now the College at Brockport), earning her teaching degree…

Sarah Dolley graduated from Rochester’s Central Medical College in 1851, becoming just the third woman in the U.S. to complete medical school and the first to be accepted as an intern, completing her training at Philadelphia’s Blockley Hospital. The…

Henrietta native Antoinette Brown Blackwell completed a literary course at Oberlin in 1847 and petitioned for acceptance into the theology program there. She was admitted to study with the understanding that the school would not license her to…

On Election Day, 2016, thousands made a pilgrimage to grave of leading suffragist Susan B. Anthony, to celebrate the promise of a woman being elected as president of the United States for the first time in history. “Because of Women Like Her”…

Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

Delivered May 29, 1851, Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio

Sojourner Truth's speech is read by Tina Chapman:

"Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think…

Susan B. Anthony, On Women’s Right to Vote, Philadelphia, 1872

Susan B. Anthony's speech is read by Jen Sally:

"Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Temperance and Women’s Rights, Rochester, June 1853

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech is read by Jen Sally:

"A little more than one year ago, in this same hall, we formed the first Woman's State Temperance Society. We…

“It is with diffidence that I speak…” Remarks by Rebecca M. Sandford

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at the Unitarian Church, Rochester, N.Y., August 2, 1848

Rebecca M. Sandford speech is read by Megan…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, An excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments, Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July and August 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech is read by Mona Seghatoleslami:

"When, in the course of…