Show o SUFFRAGE CONVENTION The first womans woman's rights con conven conn n tion in the United States was h held ld July 19 19 1848 at nt Seneca Falls X N. i- i Y It lasted two days The convention nUon was wa called ln Into o session by y Lucretia Mott Iott MarthA I C. C Wright EJI Elizabeth Elisabeth Stanton and Mary Mary Ann McClIntock lc I RatI Rathor local o al in in nature e. e It was Jibed at tr freely by n newspapers newspaper of ot the day with wilh lt headings such as ns Office ortice seeking Women nen The Reign of oC the theP P Petticoats and Insurrection Among the Women From the gathering came a Declaration ration of Sentiments fashioned fash ash after the Declaration Uon of In Independence Independence In In- dependence and a a. number of resolutions resolutions reso reso- lutlo s seeking seeking- equal suffrage In substance the resolutions were that woman was mans man's equal and de deserving er of ot an an equal voice olca in g gov gov- v vernm nl The Tho convention con adjourned af after atter at at- ter a n. two tiny session determined to m meet t. t again In Rochester two w weeks later r and petition ifor for tor the right rl-ht to vote Despite the ridicule attached to their movement ent It was as not checked check d and New York York b by act of ot 1848 and 1849 put married women women wo wo men men on an equality u with their bands and empowered them to hold IP Ir their own name convey con e and de devise levise le vise real estate state and personal onal prop prop- prop prop- erty After this first step towards toward equal suffrage e. e women's rl rights con con- cod corf- followed a annually until equal suffrage e ewas was established d b bythe by bythe the nineteenth nineteenth- amendment nt |