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Oct 18, 2022 · Suffragist organizers hold the first-ever National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 23, 1850. More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-day...
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 ...
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On this day in 1850, the first national convention for woman's rights concluded in Worcester. For two days, more than 1,000 delegates from 11 different states had filled Brinley Hall to overflowing. Speakers, most of them women, demanded the right to vote, to own property, to be admitted to higher education, medicine, ….
Mar 17, 2018 · The 1850 Woman's Rights Convention was held on October 23 and 24 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The 1848 regional event in Seneca Falls, New York, had been attended by 300, with 100 signing the Declaration of Sentiments. The 1850 National Woman's Rights Convention was attended by 900 on the first day.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Two years after Seneca Falls, the first national woman’s rights meeting, organized by abolitionist Paulina Wright Davis (1813–1876), was held in October 1850, in Worcester, Massachusetts. It attracted more than 1,000 suffrage supporters from throughout the Northeast, Midwest, and California.
Oct 22, 2019 · On October 23, 1850, the first National Woman’s Rights Convention began in Worcester, Massachusetts. Amidst the ringing fervor of the mid-19th-century clarion call for expanding women’s rights – with the right to vote as its central tenet – this day would emerge as a significant step in solidifying the goals and action plan of the women ...
Why Commemorate the 1850 Woman's Rights Convention? "The movement in England, as in America, may be dated from the first National Convention, held at Worcester, Mass., October, 1850."
