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..1848-1898..
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHT CONVENTION held in Rochester, N.Y.

Central Church,
Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29.

Souvenir Program...
Photo upper right corner of Susan B. Anthony.
Afternoon Free.…

Fannie Barrier Williams, Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the US since the Emancipation Proclamation, Chicago, 1893

Fannie Barrier Williams' speech is read by Sharitta Gross-Smith:

"Without further particularizing as to how this…

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…

VOTERS are mostly men. Do you know why men are voters?

ONLY three reasons have been given why men should have the vote:

TAXATION without representation is tyranny; MEN are taxed. "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the…

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…

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…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the NY Legislature, 1854,
Read by Jessica Lacher-Feldman:

"The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of…

Susan B. Anthony, the most well-known suffragist in the U.S., did not attend the women’s rights conventions in 1848. She was teaching in Canajoharie, NY, and lecturing against alcohol use at the time. She did not join the fight for women’s rights…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address at Seneca Falls, 1898
“What were the causes that roused women…”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton address is read by Jessica Lacher-Feldman:

"What were the causes that roused women to the consideration of their political…

Phyllis and Mamma go a-voting - and are outvoted ten to one.