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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 1848 Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, was the rhetorical event that precipitated the beginning of the woman's rights movement. This essay discusses the First Woman's Rights Convention in light of the rhetorical tensions it produced....
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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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
On July 19-20, 1848, hundreds of women and men met in Seneca Falls, New York for the very first woman’s rights convention in the United States. Its purpose was "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” Organized by women for women, many consider th...
Introduction, The Sesquicentennial of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: American Women's Unfinished Quest for Legal, Economic, Political, and Social Equality On July 19, 1998, America celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. Almost three hundred women and men...