Seneca Falls Convention

USA1848

Context

The first women's rights convention in the United States, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Its Declaration of Sentiments, modelled on the Declaration of Independence, demanded equal rights for women, including the vote.

People and groups

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass, who spoke for suffrage.

Key demands

Equal rights in law, education, property and the vote.

Timeline

1848: The convention meets on 19 and 20 July.
1920: The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the vote; Black women in the South remain barred for decades.