17 h, jul 13, 1848 y - An afternoon tea launches a revolution
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The Women’s Rights Movement marks July 13, 1848 as its beginning.On a sweltering summer day in upstate New York, a young housewife and mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was invited to tea with four women friends. When the course of their conversation turned to the situation of women, Stanton poured out her discontent with the limitations placed on her own situation under America’s new democracy.
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17 h, jul 13, 1848 y
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~ 177 years ago