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Article: The Mother of all conventions.(Women's Rights Convention)
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- Cobblestone
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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On a summer morning in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton pushed her nephew through a window so that he could unlock the church that would be the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. It was a slow start to what would become a national movement, but one that seemed to symbolize the condition of women in America: locked out of jobs, locked out of education, locked out of the vote.
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The setting was Seneca Falls, a small town in upstate New York. During the next three days, more than 300 women and men discussed "the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women."
Stanton and four ...