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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Women's Rights National Historical ParkElizabeth Cady Stanton House
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Women's Rights National Historical Park
Organizers of the First Women's Rights Convention
 
On July 9, 1848 five women met in Waterloo, New York at the home of Jane and Richard Hunt. That day Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock joined Jane Hunt in planning the First Women's Rights Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and daughter Harriot, 1856
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
called her house in Seneca Falls "the center of the rebellion"
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Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention, as it is preserved today.  

Did You Know?
Did you know that one of the organizers of the First Women's Rights Convention in America, Martha Coffin Wright, frequently housed fugitive slaves in her kitchen?
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