A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States ...

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Chickasaw tradition granted married women independent property rights. 1848 Politicized by their work in the abolition movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, publishing a Declaration of Sentiments which echoes the Declaration of Independence.

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