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Women's Rights National Historical Park
First Wave Statue Exhibit
 
group of life-size bronze statues representing some of the particpants of the First Women's Rights Convention

"The First Wave" statue exhibit in the lobby of the park visitor center. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is at the far left.

Sculptor Lloyd Lily's "The First Wave" features life-size bronze statues of the five women who organized the First Women's Rights Convention, and a few of the men who came in support of social, political, and religious equality for women.
 
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Statue of Frederick Douglass in the park visitor center
Men for Women's Rights
In 1848 Frederick Douglass and many more men came in support of equality
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Statues in the lobby of the visitor center  

Did You Know?
Did you know that many women's rights reformers were also abolitionists, and that the writers of the Declaration of Sentiments borrowed phrases and ideas from the antislavery movement?
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Last Updated: February 20, 2007 at 14:11 EST