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The First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls
Three hundred people attend the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Among the attendees are Amelia Bloomer, Charlotte Woodward, and Frederick Douglas. Lucretia Mott's husband James presides. Stanton authors the Declaration of Sentiments, which sets the agenda for decades of women's activism. A larger meeting follows in Rochester. -
"Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention
The first since the beginning of the Civil War, is held in New York City. Lucretia Mott presides over a merger between suffragists and the American Anti-Slavery Association: the new group is called the America Equal Rights Association. -
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified
Although it's gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment aare turned away. -
Susan B. Anthony gets arrested
Susan B. Anthony gets arrested in Rochester N.Y. for illegal voting. Anthony refused to pay her streetcare fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense." -
Stanton becomes the new organization's first president
The National and American associations merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Alice Paul becomes the leader of the CU.
Suffragist Alice Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Washington. She becames the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American association. -
The "Susan B. Anthony" amendment does not pass.
The Senate votes on the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment, but it does not pass. -
Ninteenth Amendment failed to pass.
President Wilson issues statement supporting federal amendment to grant woman's suffrage. President Wilson addresses the Senate in support of the Nineteenth Amendment, but it fails to win the required 2/3 majority of Senate votes. -
American women win full voting rights.
Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee, three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August. American women win full voting rights.
