DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE:
National Women's Rights Conventions, 1850-1863
September 8 -10, 2002 mark the 150th anniversary of the Third National Women's Rights Convention, held in Syracuse, New York in 1852 to discuss "woman's social, civil, and religious rights" and a "plan of operation" to secure them. In attendance were Lucretia and James Mott, Thomas and MaryAnn M'Clintock, Elizabeth M'Clintock Phillips, Martha Wright, Mary and Sarah Hollowell, Amy Post, and Catherine Stebbins, all signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848.
In celebration of
the 1852 Convention, a special exhibit, Declarations of Independence:
National Women's Rights Conventions, 1850-1863 will be on display in the
park's Visitor Center at 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls. The exhibit will
be open from September 7 through October 31.
Click
on the titles below to read the text from the exhibit panels.
