The Women’s suffrage movement was formally set into motion in 1848. And the first Women’s Rights Convention was in Seneca Falls, New York.

The catalyst for this gathering was the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in 1840 in London and attended by an American delegation which included a number of women.

In attendance were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They were forced to sit in the galleries as observers because they were women.

This poor treatment did not rest well with these women of progressive thoughts. So it was decided that they would hold their own convention to “discuss the social, civil and religious rights of women.”

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