| What: | NOW's annual national conference: The 1998
Women's Rights Convention and Vision Summit
The Vision Summit will go beyond immediate concerns and the conditions women face today. Renewing the spirit of the first Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848, NOW members will develop a Declaration of Sentiments outlining NOW's vision for the organization and for women in the future. This conference is the first step in a three year process that will carry NOW into the 21st Century. |
| Where: | Four Points Hotel Rochester Riverside, Rochester, NY |
| When: | Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 12, 1998 |
| Who: | Confirmed speakers include:
Geraldine Ferraro, US Senate candidate for New York Marcia Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine Patricia Ireland, NOW President Betsy McCaughey Ross, candidate for governor of New York Sonia Sanchez, American Book Award winning poet Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Barbara Smith, co-founder Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press |