Tonya Bolden
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Tonya K. Bolden is an American writer best known for her works of children's literature, especially children's nonfiction. Bolden has authored, co-authored, collaborated on, or edited more than forty
Portrait of Tonya Bolden
Seneca Falls Convention
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in t
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…books. Hillary Rodham Clinton praised her 1998 book 33 Things Every Girl Should Know in a speech at Seneca Falls, on the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (2005), her children's biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, was the James Madison Book Award Winner and…
Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in order: Lucretia Coffin Mott is on top of the list
This mahogany tea table was used on July 16, 1848, to compose much of the first draft of the Declaration of Sentiments.
James and Lucretia Mott
Gerrit Smith made woman suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform on June 14–15, 1848.