Robert Gordon (March 29, 1947 – October 18, 2022)

Gordon died on October 18 after years of acute myeloid leukemia.

Robert Gordon with Link Wray on guitar, on his debut
album for Private Stock Records in 1977.

Suffragist organizers held the first-ever National Women’s
Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on this day
in 1850. 

More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-
day conference, which had been planned by members of the
Anti-Slavery Society.

The convention followed the steps laid out at the landmark
Seneca Falls Convention two years before.

Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887)

During her remarkable life, Abby helped develop
plans for the first National Woman’s Rights
Convention.