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Message from the Director
Join us in welcoming West Orange township historian Joe Fagan for a special program March 21, 2-4 PM in our community room. Women of West Orange during the American Revolution: Divided Loyalties
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." As well as the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, it is the 250th anniversary of the letter dated March 31, 1776 from Abigail Adams to her husband, future President John Adams regarding the Rights of Women.
“I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
In 1918 Women finally received the right to vote with passage of the 19th Amendment. United We Stand.
Abigail Adams letter March 31, 1776. US Senate 19th Amendment
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