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Clinton's Historic Legacy In Seneca Falls & The Women's Rights Movement

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On 19 July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood behind a wooden podium outside Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, demanding that women have “immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States”. More than a century and a half later, Hillary Clinton walked on to the stage at a Brooklyn warehouse, crediting the work of Stanton and the suffragists for pioneering the fight that made it possible her to break the glass ceiling to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic party. Judith Wellman, a historian and author of The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement, said: “Elizabeth Cady Stanton is really smiling right now, Oh my goodness, she’s so happy.” No matter who people choose in November, Clinton has already secured a spot in Seneca Falls’ history.

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