The Toshodaiji Temple, an eighth-century Buddhist site in Nara, Japan (John S. Lander / LightRocket via Getty Images)

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On this day in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention began in New York. Now regarded as the start of the women’s suffrage movement, the convention was organized by activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. There, 68 women and 32 men signed Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments,” which read, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

Learn about the single female attendee of the Seneca Falls Convention who lived to see the suffragists’ dream realized.

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