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Title: #History: Women's Rights Convention Opens in Seneca Falls, NY (1848)
Post by: TFD on Jul 19, 2014, 05:31 AM
Organized by women's rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the two-day Seneca Falls Convention was the US's first national women's rights convention and is often cited as the birthplace of the American feminist movement. Adopted at the conference was a document modeled after the US Declaration of Independence that called for equal rights for women, including the right to vote and to work in traditionally male professions. What was this document called? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst64105_Women-s-Rights-Convention-Opens-in-Seneca-Falls--NY--1848-.aspx)