The first group who gathering to advocate for women’s rights in the US came together on July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. The principal organizers of what became the Seneca Falls Convention were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a mother of four from upstate New York, and the Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott.

About 100 people attended the convention, and interestingly, about two-thirds were women.