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Article: A CITY OF REFORMERS; CELEBRATION MARKS SYRACUSE'S ROLE IN EARLY WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2002
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"Trammel ed as women have been by might and custom, there are still many shining examples, which serve as beacon lights to show what may be attained by genius, labor, energy and perseverance combined."
A young Fayetteville woman, trembling beneath her voluminous skirts, spoke those words 150 years ago at Syracuse's City Hall. She was Matilda Joslyn Gage, giving her first major address in a voice so strangled by nerves she could barely be heard. But what she said - its substance and its spirit - lived on well past that day.
Gage's speech and those given by others at the Women's Rights Convention Sept. 8-10, 1852 are celebrated today at a commemoration ...