Seneca Falls Convention in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 644 SENECA FALLS CONVENTIONOn July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, the first public meeting on behalf of women’s rights was convened, thus inaugurating a movement that three-quarters of a century later resulted in the constitutional enfranchisement of women. The chief organizer was
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See Also
Women’s Rights; Women’s Rights Movement; Declaration of Rights.
Further Reading (Books)
Anderson, Bonnie S. Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830_1860. Oxford, U.K., and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848_1869. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978; reprint, 1999.
Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage. 6 vols. New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881. Reprint, Salem, N.H.: Ayer, 1985.
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Further Reading (Articles)
Female composers, conductor will take center stage tonight; An orchestral piece about the 1848 convention that helped spawn the suffrage movement makes it something to sing about.(NEWS), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); July 16, 1998; Anthony, Michael Tillotson, Kristin
Seneca Falls convention, The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana; January 1, 1994; Tad Tuleja
Seneca Falls Convention, American History Through Literature 1820-1870; January 1, 2006
Congresswoman Laura Richardson Rises to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, States News Service; August 27, 2012
WOMEN’S DAY FIRST LADY, IN SENECA FALLS, PAYS TRIBUTE TO TRAILBLAZERS, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); July 16, 1998; CHARITY VOGEL – News Staff Reporter
“Seneca Falls” filmmaker to talk at Danville screening, Oakland Tribune; October 14, 2011; Eric Louie
Un Mother’s Day Motorcycle Ride to Seneca Falls Women’s Rights National Park, States News Service; May 15, 2013
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement.(Brief article)(Book review), Internet Bookwatch; October 1, 2009
`Mini opera’ aptly marks 1848 meeting for women’s rights.(NEWS)(Review), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); July 17, 1998; Anthony, Michael
21 WOMEN NAMED TO HALL OF FAME IN SENECA FALLS, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); January 19, 1998; Associated Press
Seneca II Women Take Stands on Issues, The State Journal; February 29, 2008; Ali, Ann
Seneca Falls; Telling the story through music, art.(NEWS), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); July 14, 1998
DeCROW; Herstory Lessons; Statewide female lawyers convene in Syracuse, then visit Seneca Falls locations of 19th-century feminism, Syracuse New Times; April 30, 2003; DeCrow, Karen
Seneca Falls: The story of the women who changed the world.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review), The Christian Science Monitor; February 5, 2008; Kehe, Marjorie
The original feminist blueprint; How a meeting in a New York town inspired 150 years of change for the `civilly dead’: women.(NEWS), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); July 16, 1998; Black, Eric
Law and Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Issues of Race, Class and Gender, Transformations; March 31, 1997; Bing, Robert W. Radner, Susan Goldman
Seneca Falls: It’s a ‘Wonderful’ town, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); November 16, 2008; Joan Barone McDonald
WAS SENECA FALLS CLASSIC FILM MODEL? PARALLELS TO ‘WONDERFUL LIFE’ CITED, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY); December 12, 1996; BEN DOBBIN – Associated Press
Symbolism and Imagery in the Woman’s Suffrage Movement, Social Studies Review; October 1, 2006; Betts, Brenda
Fame & Seneca Falls. (the Last Word), Commonweal; November 22, 2002; O’Brien, Judith Johnson
Woman Suffrage: The Seneca Falls Convention
Introduction to Seneca Falls Convention
In July 1848, on the initiative of Mott and Stanton, the first women’s rights convention met at a Wesleyan church chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Between 100 and 300 people attended the convention, among them many male sympathizers. After serious discussion of proposed means to achieve their ends, the delegates finally agreed that the primary goal should be attainment of the franchise. The convention then adopted a Declaration of Sentiments patterned after the American Declaration of Independence.
Public reaction to the Seneca Falls convention presaged a stormy future for the new movement. Although many prominent Americans, including the famed editor Horace Greeley and the abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison, warmly supported it, many citizens and the great majority of newspapers responded with ridicule, fury, and vilification. Suffragists were called the shrieking sisterhood, branded as unfeminine, and accused of immorality and drunkenness. Later, when suffragist leaders undertook speaking tours in support of women’s rights, temperance, and abolition, they were often subjected to physical violence. Meetings repeatedly were stormed and disrupted by gangs of street bullies. On one occasion when Anthony spoke in Albany, New York, the city mayor sat on the rostrum brandishing a revolver to discourage possible attacks by hoodlums in the audience. Despite intimidation, the woman-suffrage and abolitionist movements continued for some years to grow side by side.” (1)
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Notes and References
- Information about Seneca Falls Convention in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
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