TIMELINE
1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history.
1851 - Sojourner Truth delivers speech: "Ain't I a Woman."
1892 - Anna Julia Cooper publishes A Voice from the South by a Black Woman from the South; perhaps the first African American feminist theorist.
Late 1800s – 1930s: Ida B. Wells leads an anti-lynching crusade against the illegal and unjustified lynching of African Americans around the nation – she is also a founder of the NAACP and a suffragist.
1890 - The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.
1895 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & The National League of Colored Women are organized.
1896 - The two organizations of Afro-American Women and The National League of Colored Women united to form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) with Mary Church Terrell as president.
1896 - Suffragists began to emphasize the special qualities women would bring to politics; they argued that since "women were better morally and spiritually than men, they would vote for peace and social justice and help the world."
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's organization formed in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, which in turn was formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight forwomen's suffrage, ignoring all other issues.
After 1900 - African-American women's suffrage clubs formed all over the nation.
1907 - Harriet Stanton Blatch formed the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (effort to unite career and working women).
1910 - Suffrage parades of women demanding suffrage around the country.
1912-1913 - Radical young women first used the term "feminist."
1916 - Alice Paul & Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union (later the National Woman's Party) on the British model of a militant strategy to demand suffrage.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
1917 - National Woman's Party began to systematically picket the White House, demanding to know what President Wilson would do for Woman's Suffrage -- many of these women were arrested and jailed. When they went on hunger strikes the government responded by force feeding them.
Jan. 10, 1918 - Jeannette Rankin, representative from Montana and only woman member of Congress, introduced the Anthony amendment (give women right to vote).
1919 - African-American women's club denied admission to NAWSA.
On June 4, 1919 - the 19th Amendment was proposed by Congress and on Augus 18, 1920 - the 19th Amendment was ratified.
[August 26, 1920 - the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the vote 72 years, one month and one week since Seneca Falls (picture to the left shows women celebrating the 19th Amendment)].
1924 - The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in the U.S. Congress (never ratified).
1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women.
1851 - Sojourner Truth delivers speech: "Ain't I a Woman."
1892 - Anna Julia Cooper publishes A Voice from the South by a Black Woman from the South; perhaps the first African American feminist theorist.
Late 1800s – 1930s: Ida B. Wells leads an anti-lynching crusade against the illegal and unjustified lynching of African Americans around the nation – she is also a founder of the NAACP and a suffragist.
1890 - The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.
1895 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & The National League of Colored Women are organized.
1896 - The two organizations of Afro-American Women and The National League of Colored Women united to form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) with Mary Church Terrell as president.
1896 - Suffragists began to emphasize the special qualities women would bring to politics; they argued that since "women were better morally and spiritually than men, they would vote for peace and social justice and help the world."
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's organization formed in 1916 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, which in turn was formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight forwomen's suffrage, ignoring all other issues.
After 1900 - African-American women's suffrage clubs formed all over the nation.
1907 - Harriet Stanton Blatch formed the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (effort to unite career and working women).
1910 - Suffrage parades of women demanding suffrage around the country.
1912-1913 - Radical young women first used the term "feminist."
1916 - Alice Paul & Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union (later the National Woman's Party) on the British model of a militant strategy to demand suffrage.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
1917 - National Woman's Party began to systematically picket the White House, demanding to know what President Wilson would do for Woman's Suffrage -- many of these women were arrested and jailed. When they went on hunger strikes the government responded by force feeding them.
Jan. 10, 1918 - Jeannette Rankin, representative from Montana and only woman member of Congress, introduced the Anthony amendment (give women right to vote).
1919 - African-American women's club denied admission to NAWSA.
On June 4, 1919 - the 19th Amendment was proposed by Congress and on Augus 18, 1920 - the 19th Amendment was ratified.
[August 26, 1920 - the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the vote 72 years, one month and one week since Seneca Falls (picture to the left shows women celebrating the 19th Amendment)].
1924 - The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in the U.S. Congress (never ratified).
1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women.
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