This
section is arranged so that, if you wish, you can read the currently available
documents straight through in chronological order, in the manner of a history
lesson. You also can find the documents indexed
by author in that index.
Document
001: 1588 - Elizabeth I's speech "I have the Heart of a King."
Document
0011 et seq.: 1792 - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Document
002: 1848 - Declaration of Sentiments: Report of The Woman's
Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Document
003: 1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton's keynote speech at
the first Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, NY.
Document
0031: 1856 - Lucy Stone's address and progress report to
the seventh Women's Rights Convention, New York City.
Document
00311: 1873 - Susan B. Anthony: On Woman's Right to Suffrage
Speech in support of suffrage.
Document
004: 1892 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton's TheSolitude of
Self Immortal speech given before Congress
and the American National Women's Association
Document
005: 1896 - Susan B. Anthony on The Woman's Bible Susan
B. Anthony's address in 1896 to the National American Woman Suffrage Association
meeting when a resolution was offered to repudiate Elizabeth Cady Stanton's
Woman's Bible.
Document
006: 1904 - Declaration of Principles In 1904, the Convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association adopted this Declaration of Principles,
sixty years after the initial Declaration of Sentiment adopted at
Seneca Falls.
Document
009: 1922 - Woman's Rights Party's Platform
Document
010, Part 1: 1922 - Re: Mrs. Frank Leslie's Will That
Shocks the World by Giving $2 MILLION to GET Woman's Suffrage Approved.
Part
2: How the Money was Spent; Part
3: A Snow of Publicity; Part
4: An Exact Accounting
Document
0102: 1969 - Shirley Chisholm on the Equal Rights Amendment
Document
011: 1992 - A Woman's View: Dying of AIDS by
Elizabeth Glaser
Document
012: 1993 - "What other judgment can I judge by but my own?"
The question of freedom of conscience.
Document
013: 1995 - Donna Shalala's speech in Beijing, China at
the World Health Organization conference as part of the Fourth U.N. Women's
Conference.
Document
014: 1995 - Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech in Beijing, China
at the World Health Organization conference as part of
the Fourth U.N. Women's Conference.
Document
015: 1995 - Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at
the Fourth U.N. conference in Beijing, China, that contains one of the
finest litanies regarding women's rights.
Document
016: 1995 - Rebels aren't always skinny little men wearing bandanas...
by Irene Stuber
Originally
web-published (through 2006) at http://www.undelete.org/.
We are indebted to Irene Stuber for compiling this
collection and for granting us permission to make it available again.
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