Women’s rights history

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  • the first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention

    the first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention

    in New York, with 300 attendees, including organizers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Sixty-eight women and 32 men (including Frederick Douglass) sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which sparked decades of activism, eventually leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.