July 2015 BAH Short List
The Delcaration of Sentiments, The Seneca Falls Convention, July 19–20, 1848 and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
While an abolitionist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights. Beyond the right to vote, she advocated for a broad range of issues which included women’s parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, the economic health of the family, and birth control. Stanton was the primary author of The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. Modelled after the Declaration of Independence, it challenged the normative cultural treatment of women as property.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton
Other calendars
- Anti-Defamation League ADL 2015 07 July
- Freedom from Religion Foundation FFRF Calendar 07
- United Nations Observations UN Proclamations & Observances UN Proclomations & Observances 2015 07 July
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July
| Name & Event | Reason important to Secular Humanism | Calendar Month |
| -Seneca Falls Convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The Seneca Falls Convention, which advertised itself as a “Womens Right Convention”.—A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman”,[1] was the first women’s rights convention.[2] Held in Seneca Falls,New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women’s rights conventions, including one in Rochester, New York two weeks later. In 1850 the first in a series of annualNational Women’s Rights Conventions met in Worcester, Massachusetts. Female Quakers local to the area organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was not a Quaker. They planned the event during a visit to the area by Philadelphia-based Lucretia Mott. Mott, a Quaker, was famous for her oratorical ability, which was rare during an era which women were often not allowed to speak in public. | July 19–20, 1848 |