Womens rights are human rights

Important dates in women’s rights history

By autumn1111
  • Abigail Adams;the letter

    Abigail Adams;the letter

    written in a letter to her husband, Abigail Adams makes a plea, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
  • Seneca Fall's convention

    Seneca Fall's convention

    In the first women’s rights convention organized by women, the Seneca Falls Convention is held in New York, with 300 attendees.This sparked decades of activism, eventually leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell;education

    Elizabeth Blackwell;education

    She was the first woman to graduate from medical school and become a doctor in the United States. SHe was born in Bristol, England and graduated from Geneva College in New York with the highest grades in her entire class.
  • "Ain't I a woman?"

    "Ain't I a woman?"

    A former slave, who became an abolitionist and women’s rights activist named Sojourner Truth; delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
  • National woman's suffrage association

    National woman's suffrage association

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement.
  • Right to vote

    Right to vote

    The legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes America’s first woman suffrage law, granting women the right to vote and hold office.
  • Birth control

    Birth control

    Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the United States.
  • First woman in congress

    First woman in congress

    Jeannette Rankin, a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association, is sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives.
  • Equal Pay

    Equal Pay

    President John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act, prohibiting sex-based wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job in the same workplace.
  • Signed into law

    Signed into law

    President Lyndon B. Johnson, signs the Civil Rights Act into law; Title VII bans employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or sex.