National Women's Hall of Fame
Seneca Falls, New York

The National Women's Hall of Fame was established in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of women's rights in America. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and 300 other women held the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and adopted a Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. This document included the demand for women to have the right to vote. It took 72 years of struggles by courageous women and men, but finally in 1920 women won the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment. The Hall is a permanent exhibit that honors the achievements in many fields that great American women have made. Some of these women are listed here, for a complete list - www.greatwomen.org

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Bella Abzug	Abigail Adams	Jane Addams
Maya Angelou	Susan B. Anthony	Virginia Apgar
Ella Baker	Clara Barton	Ruth Fulton Benedict
Mary McLeod Bethune	Elizabeth Blackwell	Amelia Bloomer
Pearl S. Buck	Betty Bumpers	Charlotte Bunch
Rachel Carson	Rosalynn Carter	Carrie Chapman Catt
Shirley Chisholm	Dorothy Day	Dorothea Dix
Sylvia Earle	Marian Wright Edelman	Betty Friedan
Margaret Fuller	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Fannie Lou Hamer
Dorothy Height	Julia Ward Howe	Dolores Huerta
Helen LaKelly Hunt	Zora Neale Hurston	Mother Jones
Barbara Jordan	Helen Keller	Maggie Kuhn
Winona LaDuke	Susette LaFlesche	Mildred Robbins Leet
Belva Ann Lockwood	Juliette Gordon Low	Wilma Mankiller
Margaret Mead	Patsy Mink	Constance Baker Motley
Lucretia Mott	Antonia Novello	Annie Oakley
Rosa Parks	Frances Perkins	Esther Peterson
Jeannette Rankin	Edith Nourse Rogers	Eleanor Roosevelt
Ernestine Rose	Sister Elaine Roulet	Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Margaret Sanger	Patricia Schroeder	Anna Howard Shaw
Eunice Kennedy Shriver	Margaret Chase Smith	Hannah Solomon
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Gloria Steinem	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mary Burnett Talbert	Ida Tarbell	Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman	Lillian Wald	Mercy Otis Warren
Faye Wattleton	Ida Wells-Barnett	Frances Willard
Oprah Winfrey	Sarah Winnemucca	Victoria Woodhull
Rosalyn Yalow

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