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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

More Women's History at the Democratic National Convention

Wednesday August 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Hillary Clinton speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
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If you were listening to Hillary Clinton's speech on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, you might have been thinking about women's history, because her "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" were themselves part of women's history. But Clinton also brought in two other key women's history topics: the Seneca Falls 1848 Women's Rights Convention, and the underground railroad work of Harriet Tubman. Read more about these two events:

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August 27, 2008 at 3:55 pm
(1) Sukhmandir Kaur says:

We heard this speech a half dozen times, each time worth listening too. Much more powerful then McCains beating around the “Bush” ;) Happy WW

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