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The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States.

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First held in in Worcester, Massachusettsthe National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including temperance advocates and abolitionists. Speeches were given on the subjects of equal wages, expanded education and career opportunities, women's property rights, marriage reform, and temperance. Chief Declaratin the concerns discussed at the convention The Declaration Of Rights Of Women And the passage of laws that would give Womem the right to vote. InLucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands to London for the first World Anti-Slavery Conventionbut they were not allowed to participate because they were women. Mott and Stanton became friends there and agreed to organize a convention to further the cause of women's rights. It was not until the summer of that Mott, Stanton, and three other women organized the Seneca Falls Conventionthe first women's rights convention.

It was attended by some [1] people over two days, including about 40 men. The resolution on the subject of votes for women caused dissension until Frederick NAd took the platform with a passionate speech in favor of having a suffrage statement within the proposed Declaration of Sentiments. One hundred of the attendees subsequently signed the Declaration. Signers of the Declaration hoped for "a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country" to follow their own meeting.

Because of the fame and drawing power of Lucretia Mott, who would not be visiting the Upstate New York area for much longer, some of the participants at Seneca Falls organized another regional meeting two weeks later, the AAnd Women's Rights Convention offeaturing many of the same speakers. The first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis was the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in In AprilOhio women held a convention to begin petitioning their constitutional convention for women's equal legal and political rights. Lucy Stonewho had agitated for women's rights while a student at Ohio's Oberlin College and begun lecturing on women's rights after graduating inwrote to the Ohio organizers pledging Massachusetts to follow their lead.

At the end of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on May 30,an announcement was made that a meeting would be held read article consider whether to hold a woman's rights convention. Stone, Henry Rigts. Garrison, whose name had headed the first woman suffrage petition sent to the Massachusetts legislature the previous year, [4] said, "I conceive that the first thing to be done by the women of this country is to demand their political enfranchisement. Among the 'self-evident truths' announced in the Declaration of Independence is this — 'All government derives its just power from the consent of the governed.

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Kenney, Dora Taft, and Eliza H. Taft a committee of arrangements, with Davis and Stone as the committee of correspondence. Davis and Stone asked William Elder, a retired Philadelphia physician, to draw up the convention call [6] while they set about securing signatures to it and lining up speakers. Stanton wished to stay at home because Anc would be in the late stages of pregnancy.

After completing her part of the correspondence, Stone went to Illinois to visit a brother. Within days of her arrival, he died of cholera and Stone was left to settle his affairs and accompany his pregnant widow back east. Fearing she might not be able to return for three months, she wrote to Davis asking her to take charge of issuing the call.

Having decided not to tarry in the disease-ridden Wabash Valleyshe had begun a stagecoach trek back across Indiana with her sister-in-law, and within days contracted typhoid fever that kept her bed-ridden for three weeks. She arrived back in Massachusetts in October, just two weeks before the convention.]