Statue from the Women’s Rights National Historic Park
I took a final weekend trip this summer to Seneca Falls, New York, where I visited the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the Women’s Rights National Historic Park. I thought about heading up to Rochester to visit the Susan B. Anthony Museum, but I was kind of running out of steam from all my driving this summer, and I didn’t make it, although I did stop at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on my way to New York.
Recent inductees at the Women’s Hall of fame
Seneca Falls is an excellent fall trip to make this election season to learn about the struggle women went through for the right to vote. It’s amazing to contemplate the fact that it took 72 years from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention that kicked off the women’s suffrage movement to the passage of the 19th amendment that finally gave (white) U.S. women the right to vote. I guess this could be seen as discouraging or a lesson in persistent activism.
To commemorate this trip, I’ve put together a women’s history book list. You can click on the link, or find it on my blog under Book Lists.