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For the next 30 years, Ernestine Rose was an active campaigner on the lecture circuit attending every National Women's Rights Convention between 1850 and 1869 and many state and local conventions as well. She was hailed as "The Queen of the Platform," for being the best female orator of mid-19th century America.<ref>[https://www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/affiliates/ernestinerose/shortbio.html ABOUT ERNESTINE ROSE], Brandeis University website</ref>}}
For the next 30 years, Ernestine Rose was an active campaigner on the lecture circuit attending every National Women's Rights Convention between 1850 and 1869 and many state and local conventions as well. She was hailed as "The Queen of the Platform," for being the best female orator of mid-19th century America.<ref>[https://www.brandeis.edu/wsrc/affiliates/ernestinerose/shortbio.html ABOUT ERNESTINE ROSE], Brandeis University website</ref>}}
== Ernestine Rose quote ==
"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are Atheists, and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so." ——Ernestine L. Rose, “A Defense of Atheism” speech, 1861, reprinted in the anthology Women Without Superstition
== See also ==
== See also ==