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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] Its organizers advertised it 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.
February 18: Founding convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [17] 1891. February 26-March 1: Twenty-Third annual NAWSA convention is held in Albaugh's Opera House in Washington, D.C. [18] 1893. January 16–19: Twenty-Fifth annual NAWSA convention is held in Washington, D.C. [19] 1895
Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, were important sites in the history of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, as the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20. The convention drew over 300 attendees, [2] many of whom signed the Declaration of Sentiments which was produced as a part of the convention. [3]
On July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States began at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
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During this period, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was active in organizing the first United States convention on women's suffrage. Held in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention resulted in the first major calls for women to be granted the right to vote. Stanton remained an influential figure in the women's rights movements of the 19th century until her ...
Some of the participants at the Seneca Falls Convention organized the Rochester Women's Rights Convention two weeks later on August 2 in Rochester, New York. [9] It was followed by other state and local conventions in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. [9] The first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1850. [9]
Some are suggesting August's meeting could look like 1968’s Democratic convention in Chicago, where a violent police crackdown on anti-Vietnam War protesters created indelible scenes of chaos ...