The Rochester - Seneca Falls area is rich in feminist history.  This tour will be an uplifting journey following NOW's annual conference. 

In July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and four friends advertised in the local paper "A Convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition of women."  Three hundred women and men answered the call to the first Women's Rights Convention in this country.  One hundred signed the "Declaration of Sentiments," which began... 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal," and went on to call for the right for women to vote - a very radical goal.  The convention was ridiculed by most newspapers.  One editorial called the meeting "the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity." 

But the Seneca Falls convention sparked a movement of grassroots feminist activism across the country.  Two weeks after the Seneca Falls convention a similar convention was held in Rochester, N.Y., and other cities and states soon followed.  These conventions shaped the ideology of the movement and made women's rights part of the public discourse.

Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Convention with the National Organization for Women! 

Re-affirm and re-energize your commitment to the goals of the women's movement in the company of hundreds of other dedicated activists! 

This tour will take you to: 

• the homes of the mothers of U.S. feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton;
• the M'Clintock House in the Women's Rights Historical Park where the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted;
• a NOW rally with Patricia Ireland, NOW President, and other feminist leaders;
• the Ontario County Courthouse, where Susan B. Anthony and others were found guilty of attempting to vote in a national election; 
• the home of Harriet Tubman, who brought hundreds of slaves to freedom;
• the National Women's Hall of Fame, celebrating the achievements of notable American women;
• Mt. Hope Cemetery, where Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are buried;
• Ganondagon, an Indian village where an Iroquois woman facilitated a peace treaty among the Five Nations, thus beginning their matrilineal form of governance;
• an exhibit on the immigrant women who worked in the area's factories, and their Women's Educational and Industrial Union;
• an exhibit on Iroquois feminists and their influence on the women's rights movement; 
• dinner at the extravagant, Romanesque Belhurst Castle;
• the Suffrage Print Shop, a working turn-of-the-century press where Amelia Bloomer published the suffrage newspaper The Lily;
• and more!

The price of $195 includes all entry fees, two lunches and a dinner, air-conditioned buses with bathrooms and knowledgeable guides. 

ACT NOW to reserve your place on this exciting tour!