by Kate McHale, Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow Harriet Forten Purvis, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist, is one of the many prominent figures in Philadelphia’s history buried in the Historic […]
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Reposted from “A Friendly Letter”, a blog by Chuck Fager. Read more from Chuck Fager here: www.afriendlyletter.com For more helpful reading on Lucretia Mott, see the bottom of this post
Lucretia Mott’s Birthday is Wednesday, January 3 Read More »
Join Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy A Hewitt, Beverly Palmer, editors of the new book, “Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons” for a lecture and discussion. We will
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This month, in honor of Women’s History month, we invited Vashti Dubois to speak at Historic Fair Hill. On an early spring Saturday, a small group of women and men
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In 1848, for the first time in the United States, women organized a convention to bring attention to their dramatically unequal rights under the law. Two of the abolitionists and
Can historians find the original Declaration of Women’s Rights? Read More »
