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VIRTUAL CONVENTION: Watch the Women’s Rights National Historical Park’s 2020 Convention Days Online
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Exhibition, Monuments, Speech, Video, Web-based
Melinda Grube portrays Elizabeth Cady Stanton in conversation with Frederick Douglass (Nathan Richardson).
The Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, hosted a three-day convention on July 17-19, 2020 to commemorate the First Women’s Rights Convention in the U.S. in 1848. The event featured live historical performances and speeches, history tours, children’s activities, hands-on art projects and scholarly speakers, including keynote speaker Coline Jenkins, Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s great-great granddaughter.
Click here to watch some of the key living history performances, speeches and tours.