Updated: July 1, 2025
Lucretia (Coffin) “Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Conference in London. Though sent as official delegates to the convention, six American women including Mott and Stanton were denied the right to participate because of their gender. The two soon agreed that the status of women must be advanced.” – Library of Congress
“On July 19, 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention convened. Heralded as the first American women’s rights convention, the two-day event was held in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.” – Library of Congress
Library of Congress
Today in History – July 19 – The Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls and the Start of Annual Conventions
Seneca Falls and the Start of Annual Conventions | Frederick Douglass Speaks in Support
Seneca Falls Declaration (1848) – National Constitution Center
Seneca Falls Convention – History
Women’s Rights – The First Women’s Rights Convention – National Park Service
Women’s Suffrage Timeline – American Bar Association
National Women’s History Museum
The Call for Suffrage at the Seneca Falls Meeting
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Sojourner Truth
Women’s Suffrage in New York State – NY Assembly
Signatures to the “Declaration of Sentiments” – United States Census Bureau
On This Day: Seneca Falls Convention (6 video clips) – C-SPAN Classroom
Seneca Falls Convention: ideas discussed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Sojourner Truth – 2:51 minute video by Historian Winnefred Gallagher – C-SPAN
Mary Ann M’Clintock | Philadelphia Women’s History Month All-Star – The Philadelphia Citizen
The Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference (1848) – EDSITEment! National Endowment for the Humanities
Seneca Falls – Elizabeth Cady Stanton WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM
Charlotte Woodward – Teachers Righting History
Seneca Falls and the First Women’s Rights Convention, July 19, 2016 – We’re History
Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument – Central Park Conservancy
PBS
“Not for Ourselves Alone” – Film by Ken Burns & Paul Barnes (4 video clips)
Women’s Suffrage Biography – Background for “Not for Ourselves Alone”
Seneca Falls Convention: Contextual Background