Ohio Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio

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The Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio was a landmark 1851 gathering in the early U.S. women's rights movement, best known as the site of Sojourner Truth's famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century feminist event
historical event
women's rights convention
aim advocacy for women's educational opportunities
advocacy for women's legal rights
advocacy for women's property rights
advocacy for women's suffrage
associatedWith Black feminism
United States women's suffrage movement NERFINISHED
abolitionism
century 19th century
chronologicallyFollows 1848 Seneca Falls Convention NERFINISHED
city Akron NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
date 1851
decade 1850s
followed Seneca Falls Convention NERFINISHED
genderFocus women
hasAttendee Antoinette Brown Blackwell NERFINISHED
Frances Dana Barker Gage NERFINISHED
Lucy Stone NERFINISHED
Sojourner Truth NERFINISHED
hasDocumentedSpeech "Ain't I a Woman?" NERFINISHED
hasLegacy commemorated in public history and educational materials about women's rights
frequently cited in women's studies and African American studies scholarship
hasOrganizer Frances Dana Barker Gage NERFINISHED
Ohio Women's Rights Association NERFINISHED
hasSpeaker Antoinette Brown Blackwell NERFINISHED
Frances Dana Barker Gage NERFINISHED
Lucy Stone NERFINISHED
Sojourner Truth NERFINISHED
hasTopic intersection of race and gender
married women's property rights
women's legal status
women's suffrage
historicalSignificance contributed to the spread of women's rights organizing in the Midwest
helped shape discourse on Black women's rights in the United States
language English
location Akron, Ohio NERFINISHED
movement abolitionist movement
women's rights movement
notableFor Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech NERFINISHED
partOf early U.S. women's rights movement
raceFocus African American women
relatedTo National Women's Rights Conventions NERFINISHED
Seneca Falls Convention NERFINISHED
state Ohio

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Sojourner Truth gaveSpeechAt Ohio Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio