SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10/AP) — In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20 in the Finger Lakes region. The women’s rights convention brought together a group of brave women who ...

A Seneca Falls park central to the women’s rights movement faces a $10M maintenance backlog and lands on a national ...

During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1848, women’s rights activists gathered at the Seneca Falls Convention for a second day. On the previous day, convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton had read the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Events will be held this weekend in Seneca Falls, celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the birthplace of the women’s rights movement “Right here in ...

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The year 2020 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s suffrage; their constitutional right to vote. The women’s rights movement ...

The Hall of Fame actually predates the National Park Service site, which was established in 1980. In addition to Wesleyan Chapel and the Stanton house, the Women’s Rights National Historical Park also ...

More than 150 years before the famous phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal," would be belted on Broadway stages, the line was changed to include women for ...