From the League of Women Voters of New Rochelle
The League of Women Voters of New Rochelle invites you to a Fourth of July ceremony, 10 to 10:30 am, outside the historic New Rochelle former home of Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader of the suffragist movement and founder of the League of Women Voters. The privately owned home at 120 Paine Ave is identified by a curbside plaque describing the home’s history.
The event is one of many which will celebrate the coming 100th anniversary of both the 19th amendment of the US Constitution giving women the right to vote in 2020, and the founding of the League of Women Voters by Ms Catt.
The highlight of the celebration will be a reading by a long-time New Rochelle resident of the Declaration of Sentiments, which announced the beginning in 1848 of the women’s rights movement.
The Declaration of Sentiments, declaring women’s demands for equal rights, came out of the first Women’s Rights Convention, at Seneca Falls (NY) in 1848. Largely written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the convention organizers, it was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. It declared “that all men and women are created equal” and listed the economic and legal rights they believed were unjustly denied women, rights taken for granted today.
The establishment response to the Declaration was largely hostile and indignant. The most controversial demand of all was the right of women to vote. It was the beginning of a struggle in which rights were one by one legally recognized. It took 72 years for the the 19th amendment to pass.
The full text of the Declaration can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Those coming to hear the presentation are encouraged to wear white, a symbol of the suffrage movement.
A table with information about the League of Women Voters and membership will be at the site.
For further information contact Joan Alexander at 914-632-2308 or at royjoanalex@yahoo.com.
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