The Seneca Falls Convention took place in 1848 and helped launch the organized women’s rights movement in the United States.
Held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848, the convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other reformers. It was the first major convention in the United States devoted specifically to women’s rights.
Delegates issued the Declaration of Sentiments, a document modeled in structure on the Declaration of Independence. It listed grievances about women’s legal, educational, economic, and political status and called for reform.
The convention famously included a demand for women’s suffrage. The gathering did not immediately change voting laws, and the national movement remained active for decades before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.