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Finger Lakes Community College will celebrate Women’s History Month on Wednesday, March 10, with a virtual talk exploring the life of a local suffagist and scientist whose discoveries laid the foundation for climate research.
Eunice Newton Foote, who grew up in Bloomfield, was also the fifth person to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
Former East Bloomfield Historical Society Director Leif R. HerrGesell will give the free, public talk via Webex from 1 to 2:15 p.m. A link to join will be posted on the college’s event calendar at events.flcc.edu.
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Finger Lakes Community College will celebrate Women’s History Month on March 10 with a virtual talk exploring the life of a local suffragist and scientist whose discoveries laid the foundation for climate research.
Eunice Newton Foote, who grew up in Bloomfield, was the fifth person to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
Leif HerrGesell, former director of the East Bloomfield Historical Society, will give the free talk via Webex from 1 to 2:15 p.m. A link to join will be posted on the event calendar at events.flcc.edu.
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Finger Lakes Community College will celebrate Women’s History Month on Wednesday, March 10, with a virtual talk exploring the life of a local suffragist and scientist whose discoveries laid the foundation for climate research.
Eunice Newton Foote, who grew up in Bloomfield, was also the fifth person to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.
Former East Bloomfield Historical Society Director Leif R. HerrGesell will give the free, public talk via Webex from 1 to 2:15 p.m. A link to join will be posted on the college’s event calendar at events.flcc.edu.
It took the agitation of a nation: the road to womenâs suffrage.
âWe have learned that our work must be upon long lines. We who have toiled up the steps of the Old Capitol only to see our bills defeated upon final vote. We who took our baby boys with us to those early meetings, now find these boys are voters, while their mothers are still asking for freedom. We only hope that the next generation of women may find their work made easier because we have trodden the path before them.â â Mary Jane Whitely Coggeshall
Like many social movements, the right for women to gain the vote in the U.S. was an arduous and complex struggle that in many ways still continues to this day.