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Women's Rights National Historical Park
Participants of the First Women's Rights Convention
 

The First Wave

 
Cover of the tract that was produced as the Minutes of the First Woman's Rights Convention.

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Minutes of the Convention.

Five women organized the First Women's Rights Convention. It was held in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848.

Several people who participated worked on committees, served as officers, chaired sessions, and addressed the convention.

The public was asked to join the organizers and sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which was ratified at the First Women's Rights Convention. The Declaration of Sentiments outlined the goals and defined the new women's rights movment.

Two-story red brick house where Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clitnock lived.
Visit a station on the Underground Railroad!
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Read Solitude of Self
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's most famous speech
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton  

Did You Know?
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.
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Last Updated: September 28, 2007 at 15:22 EST