What was the name of the 1848 meeting that launched the U.S. women’s rights movement?

The Seneca Falls Convention was the 1848 meeting that launched the organized U.S. women’s rights movement. It took place in Seneca Falls, New York, from July 19 to 20, 1848.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the gathering after meeting at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where women delegates were excluded from participation. The convention attracted about 300 people, including men and women.

Delegates adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence. It asserted that women and men were created equal and listed grievances involving education, property, employment, legal status and political participation.

The convention’s demand for women’s suffrage was especially controversial, even among attendees. Frederick Douglass supported the resolution, which passed. The meeting did not immediately change voting law, but it provided a public platform and document for the long campaign that eventually produced the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.