Declaration of Sentiments

One of the most significant artifacts in U.S. women’s rights history is in Colorado for the first time at the Center for Colorado Women’s History.

The groundbreaking Declaration of Sentiments dared to dream of equal rights for women. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, this document laid out revolutionary radical demands penned by prominent activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and signed by more than 100 participants at the first ever Woman’s Rights Convention in 1848.

A rare original printing of the Declaration of Sentiments – one of only two remaining copies – is now on display at the Center for Colorado Women’s History for a limited time: March 6 to July 6. This significant 178-year-old document is in the Centennial state for the first time, on loan from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.