The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched thewomen’s suffragemovement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. ...
Elizabeth Cady StantonandLucretia Mottwrote the Declaration of Sentiments for theSeneca Falls Women's Rights Convention(1848) in upstate New York, deliberately modeling it on the 1776Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments was read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, then each paragraph was ...
But it was not until an 1848 visit of Lucretia Mott with her sister, Martha Coffin Wright, during an annual Quaker convention, that the idea of a women's rights convention turned into plans, and Seneca Falls became a reality. The sisters met during that visit with three other women, Eliza...
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. The documents collected in this anthology bring to life the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of women dared to challenge the laws ...
Seneca Falls Convention summary: The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Intended to cal...
On July 19 and 20, 1848, 300 men and women met in Seneca Falls, a small town in upstate New York, at the nation's first Woman's Rights Convention. This event is generally considered the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States. If you'd like to learn more about ...
In July of 1848, theSeneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention ever to be held in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. That convention would change the course of history for women's rights, including being the foundation of the fight for women to be ...
(1848) SENECAFALLSCONVENTION JamesandLucretiaMott ElizabethCadyStantonin1848with twoofherthreesons MainPoint1 AllmenandWOMENarecreatedequal. •Weholdthesetruthstobeself-evident;that allmenandwomenarecreatedequal…” LucretiaMott(1842) ElizabethCady Stantonandher daughterHarriot. MainPoint2 Womenalsohavecer...
We have seen two newspapers printing the Declaration in full, theLong Island Democratissue of August 15, 1848 and Douglass’ ownNorth Starissue of August 11, 1848. Transcript A Curiosity Women’s Rights Convention. – This convention assembled at Seneca Falls, on the 19thinst. The meeting on...
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