Tag: suffrage

History’s forgotten suffrage heroes by Betty Lyons and Sally Roesch Wagner: It was no accident the first women’s convention took place in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., near where the foremothers of the movement — including Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lucretia Mott — witnessed the matrilineal indigenous society where women enjoyed rights to property,…

Commentary by our Executive Director Betty Lyons on Haudenosaunee women’s influence on the women’s suffrage movement.