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Declaration of Sentiments

37593 The first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 - 20, 1848. Attended by approximately 300 people, the convention was limited to women the first day, with men invited for the second. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was followed by eleven resolutions. The ninth argued “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise,” thus setting off the women's suffrage movement.

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1. Declaration of Sentiments The first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 - 20, 1848. Attended by approximately 300 people, the convention was limited to women the first day, with men invited for the second. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was followed by eleven resolutions. The ninth argued “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise,” thus setting off the women's suffrage movement.
2. Suffrage Procession
3. 19th Amendment
4. The Woman's Journal
5. Sojourner Truth
6. Mary Church Terrell
7. National American Woman Suffrage Association
8. The Revolution
9. Suffrage Map
10. Voting Rights Act of 1965