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Origins. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000, began in 1997 with a small grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [1] For six years, Kathryn Kish Sklar and her students at SUNY Binghamton developed document projects consisting of 20-30 transcribed documents focused around a historiographic question.
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including temperance ...
Fanny and Robert Wait. Distributed by. Women Make Movies. Release date. March 2013. ( 2013-03) Running time. 64 minutes. Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation is a 2013 documentary film written and directed by Jennifer Lee.
Spouse. Henry Browne Blackwell. . . ( m. 1855) . Children. Alice Stone Blackwell. Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. [1] In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree.
The Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 met on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York. Many of its organizers had participated in the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, two weeks earlier in Seneca Falls, a smaller town not far away. The Rochester convention elected Abigail Bush as its presiding officer, making ...
The Women's Peace Train has traditionally been used by women's groups as a means of protesting war, militarization, and the impact of violence on women and children. The idea of what peace means has evolved over decades of protest. Initially ending or preventing war was the primary goal of these protests, but in the nuclear era, it became ...
Maria W. Stewart. Maria W. Stewart ( née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and black, she was also the ...
The Ohio Women's Convention met at Massillon, Ohio, on May 26,1852. [1] It was the third in a series of conventions held in Ohio to promote women's rights and was preceded by the Seneca Falls Convention and the Ohio Women's Convention at Akron in 1851. [2] Attendees of the convention were able to use the Pennsylvania and Ohio toll road at half ...