Presents a history of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and its impact on reformers.
This book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures - Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony.
Laughlin, Kathleen A., Julie Gallagher, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Ellen Boris, Premilla Nadasen, Stephanie Gilmore, and Leandra Zarnow. “Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor.” Feminist Formations 22, no.
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Right Movement
Miriam Gurko traces the course of the movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Oliver Johnson closed one letter with “let the chain Offriend— ship between us be kept bright” (Johnson to Isaac Post, June 7, 1842, Post Family Papers, UR). For a less sanguine view of Quakers and the 1842 treaty, see Laurence M.
Featuring excerpts from primary sources, images, and sidebars, this informative volume describes the low status held by nineteenth-century women, and how a handful of key players sought to achieve equal rights during this convention that ...
“Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in 1837.” In vol. 1 of Women and Power in American History: A Reader, 2nd ed., edited by Thomas Dublin and Katherine Kish Sklar.
Ginzberg tells their remarkable story for the first time, bringing light to a neglected watershed moment in the story of women's suffrage.
They’ll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, “all men and women are created equal.” The book also discusses how the fight for women’s rights ...
Presents a history of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention and the subsequent efforts by leading organizers to obtain the right to vote for women, which finally succeeded with the passage of the Ninteenth Amendment in 1919.