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...National Woman's Party meeting at Seneca Falls, N. Y., at the place and on the 75th anniversary of the first women's rights conference adopted a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment to give women and men equal rights throughout the country. Miss Alice Paul, Vice President of the party, presented the resolution. There was a dance of 50 women and children representing the progress of woman. Later the delegates went to Rochester, N. Y., and paid tribute at the grave of Susan B. Anthony, one of the early leaders of their movement...
...National Woman's Party meets again?to spend its 75th birthday at its birthplace, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Most people have not the privilege of choosing their birthplaces. With organizations, however, it is a different matter. Nevertheless, it was more the choice of circumstances than of people that the woman's rights movements was born at Seneca Falls...
...Lucretia Mott, eloquent Quakeress, attending the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Western New York, visited her sister at Auburn. At Seneca Falls, ten miles away, was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another gifted young advocate of women's rights. They had met before at an anti-slavery conference in London. Now, being so near together, they met again?and decided to hold a convention...
...meeting was called for July 19 and 20 at Wesley an Chapel (Methodist) in Seneca Falls. It was the first meeting of its kind. In those days women faced many disadvantages. Their husbands could beat them provided it was with a stick "no thicker than a man's thumb." Husbands had the sole custody of children. Except among the Quakers, women did not engage in any public activities. (For an excellent brief treatment of the situation and developments at this time, see The Nation, July...
Authorities declare that only two etchings ever proceeded from Rubens' hand. One of them was a head of Seneca, now belonging to the British Museum. It was at first thought that the Seneca acquired by the city of Antwerp was the famous etching, but subsequent brief despatches indicate that it is a painting discovered at Riga. The price paid was only...