Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention, held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, New York, on 19–20 July 1848. Organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and local Quaker women during a visit by Lucretia Mott, it adopted a Declaration of Sentiments modelled on the Declaration of Independence, signed by 100 of some 300 people present. Its resolution on women's suffrage passed after Frederick Douglass spoke for it. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony later presented it as the beginning of the women's rights movement, a view historians have since questioned.