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1848 19 - 20 Jul | The Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, NY. The principle organizer was Lucretia Mott, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as its driving intellect. A significant role was played by an African-American man, an abolitionist and a recently freed slave, Frederick Douglass. The convention adopted a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments that consisted of 11 resolutions including the right for women to vote. The signatories were the 68 women and 32 men in attendance. The right for women to vote became part of the United States Constitution in 1920. [The Calling: Tahirih of Persia and her American Contemporaries p114-160, "Seneca Falls First Woman's Rights Convention of 1848: The Sacred Rites of the Nation"
by Bradford W. Miller (Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 8.3, 1998)]
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Womens rights; Human Rights; African Americans; Women; Gender; Equality; Conference of Badasht (1848); Tahirih; Seneca Falls, NY; New York, USA; USA; Badasht, Iran; Iran | the first time ever recorded in American history, a woman (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) publicly demanded the vote | |
Try also a shorter date like 1848-07-1 or 1848-07 try also the Chronology Canada — 1848-07-19 or 1848-07-1 or 1848-07 |
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