PRINTER'S NO. 4269
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
1176
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY DAVIDSON, THOMAS, NEILSON, MILLARD, READSHAW,
SOLOMON, KINSEY, KRUEGER-BRANEKY, DiGIROLAMO, YOUNGBLOOD,
MURT, HILL-EVANS, DAVIS, HENNESSEY, CALTAGIRONE, SCHLOSSBERG,
PETRARCA, SCHWEYER AND FITZGERALD, OCTOBER 16, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
OCTOBER 16, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the life of Lucretia Mott, a 19th century feminist
activist, abolitionist, social reformer and pacifist who
helped launch the Women's Rights Movement, including fighting
for the right to vote, and designating November 6, 2018, as
"Lucretia Mott Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Lucretia Mott was born as Lucretia Coffin on January
3, 1793, in Nantucket, Massachusetts; and
WHEREAS, Consistent with her father's wishes that she become
familiar with democratic principles, Lucretia attended public
school for two years in Boston, Massachusetts; and
WHEREAS, At 13 years of age, Lucretia was sent to a Quaker
Friends boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where two
years later, she became an assistant and a teacher; and
WHEREAS, At the boarding school, Lucretia's interest in
women's rights began with the realization that she was paid only
half the salary that male teachers were receiving; and
WHEREAS, In 1811, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott, a
fellow teacher from the boarding school, and the couple moved to
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