In eighteen forty-eight, three hundred women and men gathered in Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention.
VOA: special.2009.03.13
Nine women will be enshrined at an Oct. 12 ceremony in SenecaFalls, the western New York village where the first known women's rights convention was held.
I'm a United States Senator because in 1848 a group of courageous women and a few brave men gathered in SenecaFalls, New York, many traveling for days and nights, to participate in the first convention on women's rights in our history.