WIPP's Trip to Senca Falls

We are just a stone's throw (OK, maybe about an hour's drive) away from the birthplace of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. In 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, about 300 people gathered to hear the reading of the Declaration of Sentiments (styled after the Declaration of Independence) which demanded, among other rights, suffrage for women. The struggle, borne at the Seneca Falls Convention, was to last 72 years until women were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

WIPP sponsored a trip to Seneca Falls last semester.


Thirteen WIPP members explored the Women's Rights National Historical Park
Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY on April 17, 2010.