Seneca Falls Convention

a meeting of a group of people with a common interest

an organized effort for equal rights for women

The meeting took place in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19th and 20th 1848. 300 Women and 40 men went to the second day to discuss the rights of women. They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.

Co-founded with Lucretia Mott in 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York

She attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 in London and her group of women were not allowed to debate. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848

written at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and addressed a wide range of women's concerns -- particularly the right to vote