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NewsThis weekend marks the 176th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the United States, held on July 19–20, 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention was organized by five women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt. The women discussed their lives and challenges over tea, and then decided to draft the Declaration of Sentiments and place an advertisement in local newspapers. The Declaration, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, outlined women's inferior status and included a radical demand for suffrage. It began with "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal". The convention is often marked as the beginning of the American women's suffrage movement and is considered by many to be the birthplace of American feminism. [Thanks, Google AI!]
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