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Celebrate Women’s History Month with a visit to Center for Colorado Women's History
Come for the exhibit and stay for a poetry workshop by Kathleen Willard whose snarky feminist poems are featured in my art!

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This Document is now on View and directly relates to my “Call To Action” section of “Domestic Bliss” accessible with general admission tickets Center for Colorado Women's History

It started with a radical demand: equal rights for women. The trailblazing Declaration of Sentiments—written by activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and signed by participants at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848—set the tone for women’s political action for the next 70-plus years.

Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments made an argument for equality by rewriting the idea that “all men are created equal,” to insisting that all men and women are created equal. The Declaration defined 16 grievances relating to voting, civil independence, leadership, and economic injustice. Women’s inability to vote topped the list of complaints, and became the cornerstone of the women’s rights movement for over seven decades. The Declaration’s wider demands have echoed for more than 175 years.

Now, a rare first printing of this groundbreaking document housed at the Library of Congress is coming to Colorado—the first state to champion women’s suffrage by popular vote in 1893.

We hope you’ll make time during March’s Women’s History Month to come and see this monumental manuscript in person. The Declaration of Sentiments is now on view at the Center for Colorado Women’s History until July 6.

—Shaun Boyd, Curator of Politics & Government and Curator of Archives

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Images: Suffrage hikers who took part in the suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C. which joined the March 3, 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association parade. Courtesy Flickr Commons Project, 2009. Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, New York, July 19th and 20th, 1848. Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897–1911. Courtesy Library of Congress.

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