Ye Olde History Snippets…  174 years ago today, three hundred men and women assembled in New York for the first formal United States convention to discuss “the social, civil, and religious condition and the rights of women.”

​The Seneca Falls, NY Women’s Right Convention was the first such United States convention and considered the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.   It was advertised as “a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman”. It was held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York,…

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