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  2. Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice

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    The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was a women-only peace camp formed to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca Army Depot to Europe in the fall of 1983.

  3. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...

  4. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    Seneca women generally grew and harvested varieties of the three sisters, as well as gathering and processing medicinal plants, roots, berries, nuts, and fruit. Seneca women held sole ownership of all the land and the homes. The women also tended to any domesticated animals such as dogs and turkeys. [citation needed]

  5. Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia

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    The five women decided to hold a women's rights convention in the immediate future, while the Motts were still in the area, [2] and drew up an announcement to run in the Seneca County Courier. The announcement began with these words: "WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.—A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of ...

  6. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first women's rights convention was the Seneca Falls Convention, a regional event held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. [3] Five women called the convention, four of whom were Quaker social activists, including the well-known Lucretia Mott.

  7. List of women's conferences - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological list of women's conferences. In 1848 a group of women at Hunt House ... Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York, first women's ...

  8. List of women's rights conventions in the United States

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    This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]

  9. Declaration of Sentiments - Wikipedia

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    Signers of the Declaration at Seneca Falls in order: Lucretia Coffin Mott is at top of the list The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [1] is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.