Source: Good News Network
On this day 170 years ago, the women’s movement was born during the pioneering Women’s Rights Convention of Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the two-day meeting during which they used the language of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens.
Stanton also introduced to the 300 men and women in attendance a radical idea for inclusion in the group’s declaration, the demand for a woman’s right to vote, “suffrage”. At that time, no women were allowed to vote anywhere on the planet, and many of the other women objected to the idea. They thought it was impossible. WATCH a cool video… (1848)
Additionally, Bloomers were introduced to the feminists, according to fashion legend, by Amelia Jenks Bloomer…
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