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There she and Mott became friends and vowed to organize a women's rights convention in the United States. Stanton was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. [2] Lucy Stone was a pioneering worker for women's rights and an organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention in ...
It was founded by eighteen women, including Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock, [1] Margaretta Forten, her mother Charlotte, and Forten's sisters Sarah and Harriet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The society was a local chapter affiliated with the American Anti-Slavery Society created the same year by William Lloyd Garrison and other leading male abolitionists.
Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer.She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840.
It was the first women's rights convention held in Pennsylvania and was well-attended. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On Wednesday, June 2, the Convention was called to order at 10 am by Lucretia Mott . [ 7 ] Mott later discussed women's suffrage efforts that had taken place since the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention . [ 8 ]
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York, first women's rights convention; Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, Rochester, New York; National Women's Rights Convention, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series; Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, Salem, Ohio; Worcester Women's Rights Convention of ...
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts , the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including ...
After leaving the convention on the first day, being denied full access to the proceedings, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton "walked home arm in arm, commenting on the incidents of the day, [and] we resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home, and form a society to advocate the rights of women."
October 17–18: Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati. [5] 1856. November 25–26: Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention held in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. [5] 1858. May 13–14: Eighth National Woman's Rights Convention held in Mozart Hall in New York City. [5] 1859
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