Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention.^¹ Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".^¹ Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.^¹ Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women's rights conventions, including the Rochester Women's Rights Convention in Rochester, New York, two weeks later.^¹ In 1850 the first in a series of annual National Women's Rights Conventions met in Worcester, Massachusetts.^¹