Hillary Clinton's rise earns place of honor in birthplace of US women's suffrage

We need to remember and shout it from the rooftops--June 7th was indeed a historic moment in history for women! And I was so proud when Hillary mentioned these suffragists in her victory speech!!


Hillary Clinton's rise earns place of honor in birthplace of US women's suffrage

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/18/hillary-clinton-seneca-falls-women-rights-history

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, right, pictured with Susan B Anthony, organized the first women’s rights convention with the aim of instigating the ‘greatest rebellion the world has ever seen’.



Lauren Gambino in Seneca Falls, New York


Saturday 18 June 2016 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Saturday 18 June 2016 12.26 EDT



On 19 July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood behind a wooden podium outside Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. In a trembling voice that eventually steadied, she demanded that women have “immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States”.

Stanton read from the Declaration of Sentiments, now remembered as the foundational women’s rights document. Echoing the Declaration of Independence, the document stated: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
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More than a century and a half after the first women’s rights convention was held, Hillary Clinton walked on to the stage at a Brooklyn warehouse, and, hands clasped at her heart, shattered a 240-year-old glass ceiling. Draping herself in the mantle of the women’s rights movement, Clinton credited the work of Stanton and the suffragists for starting the fight that made possible her historic ascent to presumptive nominee of the Democratic party.

“Tonight’s victory is not about one person,” Clinton told the crowd assembled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, many of them women and girls wiping tears from their eyes. “It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible. In our country, it started right here in New York, a place called Seneca Falls.”

Clinton’s victory would have made her forebears proud, said Judith Wellman, a historian and author of The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement.

“Elizabeth Cady Stanton is really smiling right now,” Wellman said. “Oh my goodness, she’s so happy.”...................










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