A Note From Bob

Sunday. On this very date in 1848, some three hundred people filed into the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, for the first women's rights convention in American history. Two days later, one hundred of them had signed a declaration that opened with a familiar line, rewritten: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." Today's featured quiz covers the convention that started it all, 178 years ago today. Pour the coffee.

Trivia Question of the Day

The answer is at the bottom of this email.

Today's Featured Quiz

Two days in July 1848 that changed the course of American history. The organizers, the locked chapel doors, the Declaration of Sentiments, and the seventy-two-year road to the vote that followed. 15 questions.

The Answer

In 1848 she was a nineteen-year-old glove maker who rode a wagon to Seneca Falls hoping for a life beyond piecework sewing. When the 19th Amendment was ratified seventy-two years later, she was the only signer still living. The fight she joined that summer runs straight through today's second quiz on the Civil Rights Movement, and 47 more questions are waiting for you.

On This Day

On this day in 1941, the U.S. Army began training its first class of Black military pilots at Tuskegee, Alabama. The men who became the Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 15,000 sorties over Europe and North Africa, and their record helped push President Truman to desegregate the armed forces in 1948, a milestone on the long road covered in today's second quiz. Test yourself with 32 questions on the Civil Rights Movement.