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Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others plea for the end of discrimination towards women -
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Women and the Progressive Movement
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National Association of Colored Women
The National Association of Colored Women is formed uniting African American women's clubs together. -
National Women's Suffrage Association
The National Women's Suffrage Association is formed -
Wyoming passes Suffrage
Wyoming is the first state to pass a women's suffrage law -
Supreme Court
Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court. -
National Women's Trade Union League
The National Women's Trade Union League works for better working conditions and higher wages for women. -
Married Women's Property Act
Every state has passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act (1848), granting married women some control over their property and earnings by now. -
Congressional Union
The Congressional Union campaigns for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s suffrage. -
The Woman Rebel
Feminist Margaret Sanger publishes The Woman Rebel, a magazine about contraception, which coins the term "birth control." -
Nineteenth Ammendment
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
