From Our Special Collections: 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights Convention

 

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1848 ROCHESTER WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION

These meeting notes from the August, 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights Convention echo the conversation that took place less than two weeks before, at the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls. Rochester native, Amy Post, along with other activists planned this second convention. The participants of both meetings discussed a woman's right to vote, access to education and pay equity with men. The roots of the nineteenth century woman's rights movement began in Western New York. Following these meetings, Susan B. Anthony (another Rochester native) would become involved in the struggle for woman's rights. Although suffrage was not achieved during the lifetimes of Amy Post and Susan B. Anthony, their campaign led the way for the women who came after.

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