Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee All the Best. Today we are going to discuss some

iconic texts in women's history. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights

convention in American history, and the speeches delivered there have been touchstones for

women's rights movements all over the world ever since.

The convention is considered the kickoff of the women's suffrage movement in the United States,

even though it would be 72 years before the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920,

which of course guaranteed women the right to vote,

and it would be 117 more years before the

Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, which protected black men's and women's right to vote.

So this was a slow and painful process. And amidst some of the inspiring language of the

Seneca Falls Convention speeches, you can already see some big

problems that would keep thwarting the effort toward voting justice for all Americans. But we'll get to

that later. First, we're going to introduce my reading partner, Courtney McPhee. Hi, Courtney. Hi, Amy. Thanks

so much for reading and for being here today. So should we dive in?

Yes.

Okay.

So first, let's talk about the organizers of the convention, the organizers and the speakers at the convention, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

So Courtney, can you start by telling us about Lucretia Mott?

I can.

Born January 3rd, 1793, Lucretia Coffin was raised in a Quaker family in Boston.

She was sent to a Quaker school where she became even more adamant in her belief that all are born equal.

When she finished school, she stayed on as a teacher, then became

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