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The Ohio Women's Convention at Akron met for two days on May 28-29, 1851 in Akron, Ohio. [1] The convention was led by Frances Dana Barker Gage, who had previously presided over a similar event in McConnelsville. [1] The convention was not well received locally and several men, including local ministers, heckled speakers at it. [1]
In a letter read aloud, William Henry Channing suggested that the convention issue its own Declaration of Women's Rights and petitions to state legislatures seeking woman suffrage, equal inheritance rights, equal guardianship laws, divorce for wives of alcoholics, tax exemptions for women until given the right to vote, and right to trial before ...
Sojourner Truth, human rights activist, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron. This speech will be dramatized during the HHA program Life of Sojourner Truth highlighted in Hudson ...
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
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Located at 475 N. Howard St. in Akron, Grace House is one of only three organizations in the nation to provide free, “non-barrier” end-of-life care for people who are unhoused or alone.
Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed its abortion rights jurisprudence. In a majority opinion by Lewis F. Powell Jr. , the Court struck down several provisions of an abortion law of Akron, Ohio , including portions found to be unconstitutionally vague .
In 1991, 17-year-old mom Melissa Collins and her 8-month old baby girl, Jasmine, vanished from their West Akron apartment. In the decades since, police have searched a local park and followed ...