• First Wave Statue Exhibit

    Women's Rights

    National Historical Park New York

Organizers of the First Women's Rights Convention

On July 9, 1848 five women met in Waterloo, New York at the home of Jane and Richard Hunt. That day Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock joined Jane Hunt in planning the First Women's Rights Convention.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    called her house in Seneca Falls "the center of the rebellion" Read More

Did You Know?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Did you know that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls First Women's Rights Convention? She gave her most famous speech in 1892. Read it now. More...