• First Wave Statue Exhibit

    Women's Rights

    National Historical Park New York

People

Postage Stamp
First class postage from 1948 commemorating the First Women's Rights Convention.
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The people who made the First Women's Rights Convention happen and a few of the notable others that came before and later joined them are the focus of this section. Learn about the people who believed that together they could make the United States better for all Americans.

 
  • Men for Women's Rights Men for Women's Rights

    In 1848 Frederick Douglass and many more men came in support of equality Read More

Did You Know?

Statues in the lobby of the visitor center

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? More...