1848: Seneca Falls Convention

On this parlor table, Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, a radical demand for equality that launched the first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, Stanton’s document proclaimed that “all men and women are created equal” and resolved that women would take action to claim the rights of citizenship denied to them by men. The Declaration of Sentiments was adopted officially at the Seneca Falls Convention in J

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July 19, 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention for Women's Rights, the first of its kind in the US, began in New York. Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Convention was attended by approximately 300 men and women and was considered to be the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

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On July 19, 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention begins -- the first ever women's rights convention in the U.S. (click the photo to see it placed in Street View).

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In July of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history - The Seneca Falls Convention

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A two-day convention that was attended by almost 300 people (men and women), focused on this petition, the Declaration of Sentiments. This petition detailed the oppression men had imposed on women. Women wanted, and had been deprived, of legal rights, of the legal right to own their own property, of custody of their children in cases of divorce, of the right of higher education, etc… (1848)

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This Day in Resistance History: Declaration of Sentiments at Women’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls 1848

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in American history. In July of 1848, hundreds of women gathered in Seneca Falls, NY to kick off the convention, which eventually led to the Suffrage Movement. It began, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading through the Declaration of Sentiments for all the attendees to deliberate.

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Seneca Falls Convention took place in 1848 and was the 1st convention to discuss woman's rights. It was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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