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The Woman Suffrage Movement
The right of women to vote was first seriously proposed at a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Here, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott declared that the vote was women's basic right and the means to gaining other rights. Three years later, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They soon became the driving force in the seventy year struggle for woman suffrage.
In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Anthony, was formed to agitate for an amendment to the Constitution. This amendment was presented by Anthony and her successors to forty consecutive sessions of Congress. It repeatedly failed to pass. National attention and support came to the movement when Anthony was arrested and tried for voting in the 1872 Presidential election.
After Anthony's death in 1906, a phrase from her last suffrage speech, "Failure is Impossible," became the motto of young suffragists. Fourteen years later, in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Women had won the right to vote.
Links related to Suffrage and Women's History
National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites
National Women's History Museum
Website for Carrie Chapman Catt's Childhood Home in Iowa
11th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
National Women's History Project
Places Where Women Made History: A National Register of Historic Places
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848 - 1998
National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York
Brief History of Women in the US
National Parks Service's National Historic Landmark Program
Susan B. Anthony Letters Collection, Rochester Public Library, Local History Division
Links related to Rochester, NY
Susan B. Anthony isn't the only person who made history in Rochester. Frederick Douglass lived here for 25 years, publishing his newspaper, The North Star. And of course George Eastman, who lived in Rochester for most of his life, gave photography to the masses. Eastman Kodak Company is still headquartered in Rochester. Eastman's mansion, along with The Susan B. Anthony House, are Rochester's two National Historic Landmarks.
Located on Lake Ontario's southern shores between Buffalo and Syracuse, and just across the water from Toronto, Rochester became America's first boomtown in the mid-1800s with the building of the Erie Canal. Today, tour boats and historic sites still tell the story of "Clinton's ditch" and Rochester-area canal towns celebrate the waterway's history with summer festivals.
In addition to Kodak, several other Fortune 500 companies do business in Rochester, such as Xerox and Bausch and Lomb. In fact, Chester Carlson first started using the process of Xerography right here in Rochester. The community has one of the highest levels of skilled workers in the world and is one of the top ten exporting areas in the nation.
Some other American mainstays have their roots in Rochester: French's Mustard; the voting machine; Fanny Farmer Candy; and marshmallows. Jazz musicians Cab Calloway and Chuck Mangione are from Rochester, as is Olympic speed skater Cathy Turner.
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The Mormon religion began in a rural area just east of Rochester and Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, attended the University of Rochester. Anthony also is credited for gaining women admission to the University of Rochester in 1900. Today, the university has the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership.
Accommodations in the Rochester area are first-rate with more than six thousand rooms in 74 hotels in the area. Fourteen of these hotels are "full service hotels" with on-site restaurants and extensive meeting space.
Rochester is the third largest urban area in New York State, the 38th largest in the country, and it is known for its philanthropy. The United Way began in Rochester and American Demographics Magazine twice has rated Rochesterians as the kindest and most helpful in the United States.
For tour packages and more information about visiting Rochester, Susan B. Anthony's home for forty years, contact the Greater Rochester Visitors Association.
Guide To Rochester WebsitesThe Susan B. Anthony House is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-deductible organization.
