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The First Woman’s Rights Convention

Back in the day on October 23rd, 1850, the First National Woman’s Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. The two-day gathering attracted more than one-thousand attendants from states across the nation. The pioneering convention central to strengthening the national movement for women’s equality was born earlier that year from the discussions of those present at an annual meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in Boston. Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, and Paulina Wright Davis were among those who determined that a Woman’s Rights Convention needed to be organized to further the cause. Davis was the president welcomed those in attendance by stating in defense of women’s suffrage and equality that, “It is one thing to issue a declaration of rights, but quite another thing to commend the subject to the world’s acceptance to secure the desired reformation.”

The two-day gathering in Worcester proved to be the first in a series of annual conventions. By 1870, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others pointed to it as the genesis of the movement for women’s rights and equality.

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