{excerpted from an article on History.com} At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention the first ever held in the United States convened with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: First International Wome’s Day Celebrated in 1909
{excerpted from the United Nations website} International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world on March 8, when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of labor movements at the turn of the […]