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During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, for a discussion of the current social, civil, and religious conditions, and equal rights for women.

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10/AP) — In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held on July 19 and 20 in the Finger Lakes region. The women’s rights convention brought together a group of brave women who ...

If you want to find the origins of feminism, give the job to a woman. White House chief technology officer Megan Smith on Wednesday launched a nationwide search for the original "Declaration of ...

DENVER — The oldest known original printed copy of the Declaration of Sentiments — the foundational document of the American women’s suffrage movement — is now on display at the Center for Colorado ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Advertisement Article continues below this ad When I was growing up, the only ...