On this day, 23 October 1850 the first National Women’s Rights Convention in the US took place in Massachusetts. The first motion defined their mission statement to “to secure for [woman] political, legal, and social equality with man”. The speakers included women’s rights and anti-slavery activists like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth (pictured). https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1243497262502088/?type=3