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E PLURIBUS UNUM —
OUT OF MANY, ONE

HISTORY OF CONGRESS
AND THE CAPITOL

Suffrage For All

A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists, offset lithograph by F. Gutekunst, ca. 1851

A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists, offset lithograph by F. Gutekunst, ca. 1851

 

A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists, offset lithograph by F. Gutekunst, ca. 1851

Abolitionist Lucretia Mott (front row, second from right), an organizer of the first women’s rights convention in 1848, worked for universal suffrage and civil rights.

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History of Congress and the Capitol