Votes for Women: Celebrating New York's Suffrage Centennial

Chronicles the history of the women's rights and suffrage movements in New York State and examines the important role the state played in the national suffrage movement.

The work for women's suffrage started more than seventy years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and one hundred supporters signed the Declaration of Sentiments asserting that "all men and women are created equal." This convention ...