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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others plea for the end of discrimination towards women
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The National Association of Colored Women is formed uniting African American women's clubs together.
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The National Women's Suffrage Association is formed
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Wyoming is the first state to pass a women's suffrage law
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Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court.
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The National Women's Trade Union League works for better working conditions and higher wages for women.
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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.
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The Congressional Union campaigns for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
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Feminist Margaret Sanger publishes The Woman Rebel, a magazine about contraception, which coins the term "birth control."
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Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
