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Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of women's rights in 1848

One hundred sixty-eight years ago, a hastily assembled group of suffragists, abolitionists, Quakers, and Methodists gathered in a sleepy mill town in Upstate New York to argue that women should have the right to vote.

    by By Debra Bruno, WASHINGTON POST, Washington Post
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    By Debra Bruno, WASHINGTON POST, Washington Post