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(continued from page 47) Women's Rights Today Seneca Falls is the site of the National Women's Hall of Fame and the historic home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a founder of the movement. The town's Wesleyan Chapel (located in the Women's Rights National Historical Park) is the site where she helped organize the first Women's Rights Convention. Susan B. Anthony was another leader in the movement and worked with Stanton. Learn her story at the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester. In Hyde Park, the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, the only National Historic Site dedicated to a first lady, was once the Roosevelt family retreat. ©KRISTIAN S. REYNOLDS New York State has been an integral part of various aspects of human rights history. The Women's Rights movement, one of the most iconic human rights revolutions, began here in 1848 in Seneca Falls. WOMEN'S RIGHTS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, SENECA FALLS Civil Rights Beginning in 1799, New York gradually ended slavery within its borders and offered black Americans opportunities denied them in other parts of the country. As a result, black leaders in the Abolitionist movement, like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, made New York their home. Learn about these and other important civil rights figures at the National Abolition Hall of Fame in Peterboro. Along the Path Through History, see how New Yorkers have been at the forefront of the struggle for civil rights since the Abolitionist movement began. New York was also an important stop along the Underground Railroad. Find out about this important path to freedom at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. In 1969, members of the LGBT community rioted against unfair treatment by police outside of NYC's Stonewall Inn. Today, the Gay Liberation Monument stands in Christopher Park as a memorial to that moment in the ongoing struggle for equal treatment. Immigration New York State has long been the center for immigration to the United States. While the New York City skyline is the first site many of these new Americans would see upon their arrival, you have to span across the state to understand the HARRIET TUBMAN HOME, AUBURN ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY SUMMER * 52 * 800/CALL-NYS 

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