USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The park commemorates women’s struggle for equal rights, and the First Women’s Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 and 20, 1848. An estimated three hundred women and men attended the Convention, including Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heralded as the first women’s rights convention in the United States, it was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. At that conference, activist and leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted The Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women’s equality and suffrage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Originally known as the Woman’s Rights Convention, the Seneca Falls Convention fought for the social, civil and religious rights of women. The meeting was held from July 19 to 20, 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Despite scarce publicity, 300 people-mostly area residents-showed up.

Detailed explanation-4: -The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1848, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and several other women decided to call a women’s rights meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. About 300 people-including the former slave and prominent reformer Frederick Douglass-attended.