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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>}}
== Backlash/antipathy against Ernestine Rose and her current obscurity ==
The online research website Questia declares concerning Ernestine Rose:
{{Cquote|The editor of a small Maine newspaper wrote "It would be shameful to listen to this woman, a thousand times below a prostitute." A minister in Charleston, South Carolina, forbade his congregation to heed "this female devil."...
Despite her importance, Rose is perhaps the most forgotten of the women's rights activists; today virtually no one knows her name. She is, to use Virginia Woolf's words, "a stranded ghost." Her disappearance from history is telling: not only was she scorned by newspaper editors and Southern ministers, but she also was isolated from and sometimes ignored by the very women and men with whom she shared reform platforms. Rose was an "other" in a movement of others--an outsider in a group of women who banded together against oppression. She looked and sounded different from the other women: she spoke with a foreign accent; she was outspoken; she was ironic.<ref>[https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-87707972/ernestine-l-rose-freethinking-rebel-great-minds Ernestine L. Rose: Freethinking Rebel. (Great Minds)] By Kolmerten, Carol, Questia</ref>}}
In the United States and throughout much of the world, atheists are a distrusted minority (see: [[Distrust of atheists]] and [[Sociology of Atheism is Un-American]] and [[Views on atheists]]).
== Ernestine Rose quote ==
== Ernestine Rose quote ==