In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, for a discussion of the current social, civil, and religious conditions, and equal rights for women.

A statue of the people present at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention can be seen at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls. Keith Ewing (Flickr/Creative Commons) Editor’s Note, July ...

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During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

The first women's rights convention centered around the Declaration of Sentiments. When Susan B. Anthony introduced the Declaration of Sentiments at the first convention on women's rights, she ...

If you want to find the origins of feminism, give the job to a woman. White House chief technology officer Megan Smith on Wednesday launched a nationwide search for the original "Declaration of ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Mason University Professor Rosemarie Zagarri explained the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments that was created at ...