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"All men and women are created equal..."
On a warm July day in 1848, more than three hundred women and men attended the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. After two days of discussion, one hundred people signed the Declaration of Sentiments, making a public commitment to work together to improve women's political, social, and economic status. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, and soon Susan B. Anthony joined together with thousands of woman in a seventy-two year battle for women's equality. After the Nineteenth Amendment passed in 1920, granting women the right to vote, Alice Paul turned to the Declaration of Sentiments to determine which women's equality issues to pursue next. Inspired by the pioneering women before them, the National Woman's Party honored them in print, ceremony, and spirit. |