Seneca Falls Convention

In 1848, five women organized the very first womens rights convention- which would mark the start of the women's suffrage movement. Martha Coffin Right and her sister Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann M'Clintock came upon the idea over tea at M'Clintock's house. Nearly 300 hundred people attended the Seneca Falls Convention- a much larger crowd than expected, as only a few ads told of the event. The main event of the convention was voting on The Declaration of Sentiments, but (these people) also gave speeches.