Feminism Timeline

  • Seneca Falls Convention: Day 1

    the first women's rights convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
  • Seneca Falls Convention: Day 2

    the first women's rights convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York,
  • Woman's Rights Convention

    Rochester, NY.
  • First National Woman's Rights Convention

    Worcester, MA.
  • Period: to

    Regular Woman's Rights Conventions

    Ended at the start of the civil war.
  • Ain't I a woman?

    Sojourner Truth
  • Reorganization of Woman's Rights Movement

    Came back after the civil war.
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Grants former slaves rights.
  • National Woman Suffrage Association Founded

    Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
  • Wyoming grants women right to vote.

    First state to do this.
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Can't prohibit voting due to race, colour, etc.
  • First Woman to ever vote

    It was Louisa Ann Swain.
  • First Woman to run for president

    VIctoria Woodhull nominated by equal rights party.
  • Susan B. Anthony Arrested

    She was a leader in suffrage.
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union Oraganized

    In ohio.
  • Marie Curie Wins Nobel Prize

    First woman to win a nobel prize
  • Catastrophe in sweatshop

    Most were women and the result was asfer working conditions.
  • Suffrage Parade

    In New York City
  • Russian Women go on strike

    Led to International Women's day.
  • 19th Amendment

    Women could vote.
  • First woman to fly across the atlantic

    it was amelia earhart.
  • Rosa Parks

    Stood up to the man.
  • FDA approves birth control

    women can take birth control
  • Equal Pay Act

    Abolished pay difference due to sex.
  • First woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova
  • NOW founded

    National organization for women
  • Protest of Miss America

    400 jealous feminists attended
  • The Feminists Organization was founded

    Appartently NOW wasn't radical enough.
  • Redstockings Organized

    First radical feminist organization.
  • West Coast Lesbian Conference

    Topic on transgender