Browse Items (147 total)

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…

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, 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…

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…

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…

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…

..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.…

Frederick Douglass, International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., 1888

Frederick Douglass' speech is read by Djed Snead:

"Mrs. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:— I come to this platform with unusual diffidence. Although I have long been…

Freeman Johnson's gustoweh. A gustoweh is a traditional Haudenosaunee fitted hat with feathers affixed to the top. It is worn by males and identifies the nation the man belongs to, depending on the placement of the feathers.

Gavel used at the second meeting of the Woman's Suffrage Movement, Unitarian Church, Rochester, NY.