Discover How Five Women Changed the World In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and four other women invited the public to the First Women's Rights Convention
Today's tour takes us back to western New York, circa 1848, when the first American women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls.
This History Channel exhibit is divided into three sections: History (a synopsis of 220 years of women's rights in America), Timeline (important events from 1777 to 1997) and Firsts.
At the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, "the delegates adopted a platform that called for a broad range of social, economic, legal, and political reforms that would dramatically raise the status of women in American life.
These thirty-eight suffrage-era pictures are part of the Library of Congress' By Popular Demand program to digitize their most frequently requested holdings and place them online.
The efforts of the suffragists went beyond petitions and parades.
