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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 ...
1860. May 10–11: Tenth National Woman's Rights Convention held at The Cooper Union in New York City. [5]May 14: First Woman's National Loyal League Convention held at the Church of the Puritans in New York City.
The 1860 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met May 16–18 in Chicago, Illinois. It was held to nominate the Republican Party 's candidates for president and vice president in the 1860 election .
Wood engraving illustrating the Charleston convention. The front-runner for the nomination was Douglas, who was considered a moderate on the slavery issue. With the 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act, he advanced the doctrine of popular sovereignty: allowing settlers in each Territory to decide for themselves whether slavery would be allowed—a change from the flat prohibition of slavery in most ...
In 1866, Anthony and Stanton organized the Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War began. [3] The convention voted to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens, especially the right of suffrage. [4]
During the annual convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston in 1850, with the support of Garrison and other abolitionists, Stone and Paulina Wright Davis posted a notice for a meeting to consider the possibility of organizing a women's rights convention on a national basis. [44]
The Appendix of Volume II of the History of Woman Suffrage, whose editors include Stanton and Anthony, reprints a lengthy newspaper article about the League's founding convention, including the adoption of this resolution: "Resolved, That the following be the official title and the pledge of the League—the pledge to be signed by all applicants for membership: 'Women's Loyal National League ...
New York Women's Rights Convention of 1860, New York, ... 1977 National Women's Conference, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers;