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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [ 1] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2][ 3] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it ...
Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [ 1] is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca ...
The Women's Rights National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, United States. Founded by an act of Congress in 1980 and first opened in 1982, the park was gradually expanded through purchases over the decades that followed. It recognizes the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls ...
The Town of Seneca Falls contains the former village also called Seneca Falls. The town is east of Geneva , New York , in the northern part of the Finger Lakes District. Seneca Falls is a historic location along a branch of the Erie Canal and is often referred to as the 'birthplace of women's rights', [ citation needed ] where the 1848 women's ...
In 1848, Mott and Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, at Seneca Falls, New York. [54] [55] Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed despite Mott's opposition. Mott viewed politics as ...
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including temperance ...
Charlotte Woodward Pierce. Charlotte Woodward Pierce (January 14, 1830 – March 15, 1924) was the only woman to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and live to see the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. [1] She was the only one of the 68 women who signed the Declaration to see the day that women could ...
The women who called together the Seneca Falls Convention in July of 1848. They passed 11 resolutions demanding equal rights for women. And who opposed it? Virtually every Christian group who ...