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Protest at a commemoration of the Battle of Lexington. In Myner v. Happerstett the U.S. Supreme Court decides that being a citizen does not guarantee suffrage.
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Harriet Stanton Blatch forms the Equality League of Self Supporting Women. She introduces the English suffragists' tactics of parades, street speakers, and pickets.
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Washington (state) grants woman suffrage.
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California grants woman suffrage. In New York City, 3,000 march for suffrage.
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Women's Suffrage parade on the eve of Wilson's inauguration is attacked by a mob. Hundreds of women are injured, no arrests are made. Alaskan Territory grants suffrage.
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Nearly 500 women are arrested, 168 women serve jail time, some are brutalized by their jailers. North Dakota, Indiana, Nebraska, and Michigan grant presidential suffrage; Arkansas grants primary suffrage. New York, South Dakota, and Oklahoma state constitutions grant suffrage.
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The jailed suffragists released from prison the appellate court rules all the arrests were illegal. President Wilson declares support for suffrage. Suffrage Amendment passes U.S. House with two-thirds vote however loses by two votes in the Senate.
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19th amendment is radifed by Tennessee.
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19th amendment becomes a law.
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Women gained the vote in 1920 after 72 years
of the LARGEST civil rights movement
in the HISTORY of the world.