Seneca Falls Convention was an assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
Seneca Falls, village and town (township), Seneca county, west-central New York, U.S. The village lies in the Finger Lakes district on the Seneca River (connecting Seneca and Cayuga lakes), once the site of 50-foot (15-meter) falls. Hydroelectric power i
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitio
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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...
The convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The Seneca Falls meeting ...
http://www.senecafallshistorymuseum.org Women's Rights National Historical Park The Women's Rights National Historical Park commemorates the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, where the women's rights movement began. Visitors can explore the Visitor Center, which features exhibits related to women's...
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications ...
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A History of the Seneca Falls 1848 Women's Rights Convention By Jone Johnson Lewis In the interim between the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention and the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed theDeclaration of Sentiments, a document declaring the rights of women modeled on ...