It took place Seneca Falls, New York (www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm). The convention was held in July of 1848 in the Wesleyan church chapel. One hundred to three hundred people came and supported the movement, both female and male (Encarta). One very special woman who did not attend was Susan B. Anthony who had recently befriended Stanton (www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm). At the convention the delegates decided to create a Declaration of Sentiments. They modeled this document after the United States" Declaration of Independence. The public was outraged with this meeting to give women equal rights. Stanton came out of the convention alive though, and went on to continue her women's movement (Encarta). She was considered by many to be the most famous freethinking woman of her day (www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_murphy/stanton.html).
One of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's closest friends and associates was Susan B. Anthony. Anthony was born February 15th, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second of eight children. She eventually settled down in Rochester, New York where she began her teaching career at age 15 (Encarta). Her father raised her as a liberal Quaker and while in Rochester, she began her first ever involvement in the temperance movement against alcohol (www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/bio.html).
Susan B. Anthony started her involvement in the Women's Rights Movement when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention. They became life long friends and partners in the fight for women's rights. The two worked for six years from 1854 until 1860 to reform the laws on women's rights in the state of New York. Because of her children, Stanton could not verbalize her own speeches. Susan B. Anthony stepped in and would often read the speeches written by Stanton to an enthusiastic crowd of Women's Rights Supporters (Encarta). Stanton and Anthony fought for many things including divorce reform, birth control, and the challenge to religious assumptions that opposed legal rights for women (www.