Conventions
Conventions were a big part of the Women's Rights Movement. It helped bring women who wanted the right to vote together.
The picture above is a picture of the first Women's Rights convention. It was held in the month of July in 1848.The location was in Seneca Falls. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the hastily organized and hardly publicized convention. However, 300 men and women came to protest mistreatment of women in economic, political, social, and religious life.
The first National Women's Rights Convention was in the month of May in 1851. Women from the meeting in Seneca Falls who were attending an anti- slavery convention in Boston came together to plan a National Women's Rights Convention. The location they chose was Worcester. 1,000 people arrived , 286 " declared themselves " that they could vote. 84 were from Worcester.
Associations
In July 21,1896 the National Association of Colored Women was made. It brought more than 100 colored women clubs. The leaders of this association are Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, and Anna Julia Cooper.
National Women's Trade Union League was founded in 1903. It was successful in uniting women from all classes to work toward better, fairer working conditions. It also improved wages for women.