History Talk: The Declaration of Sentiments of 1848

Before #MeToo, before the ERA, before Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, before the lesbian continuum concept of sexuality, before the Combahee River Collective there was the Declaration of Sentiments 170 years ago.

Join Women's Museum of California Past Board President, Anne Hoiberg for a stimulating discussion of this famous freedom document that outlined the rights that American women were entitled to as citizens, and that emerged from the Seneca Falls Convention, the first documented women’s rights convention held in upstate New York in 1848. Modeled on the Declaration of Independence, it caused much controversy and met with significant opposition to its publication.  It is one of the first statements of the political and social repression of women and marked the start of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Please scroll down to register.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was one of the few men who championed and attended the Convention. An original copy of the Declaration will be on view during the program.  Co-sponsored with the Women's Museum of California.