Seneca Falls Convention: The Fight For Women's Rights

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When asking where I'd like to go, I think it's better to ask when. History has always been so interesting to me, especially the moments dealing with the fight for equal rights among women and minorities. Looking back on all the advocates for equal rights when the rest of the world was against them is purely inspirational. And when deciding where I'd like to go, it's hard to narrow it down to one single moment in time. But, I can give a few examples.

One particular place in time I'd like to travel to is July 19th and 20th in
1848 in Seneca Falls, New York to witness the historical Seneca Falls convention. During my U.S. history class, my professor covered the women's rights movement extensively and this particular section was my favorite.
Picturing the women taking …show more content…

Women's rights is a passionate subject to me, as a woman, and I am a strong advocate for equal rights between men and women even today through the feminist movement. I would love to be able to go to the very beginning of it all and see what is different and what is the same and how exactly women, who at the time were viewed as objects who couldn't amount to anything except housewives, started the fight for their rights.

Similar to the women's rights movement, I would like to travel back to witness the historical civil rights movement, specifically, the March on Washington in
1963. I've always believed in peace and the power of peaceful protests rather than violent acts to make a change. And what better example of this than Martin
Luther King Jr. He saw the world for how it could be and not what it was, something I tend to do as a personal comfort. He is my biggest inspiration and I would give anything to be able to see him in person and scan the faces of the crowd to see their reactions to his enlightening words.

In our society today, we have lost sense of ourselves. Every day we are

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