Progressive Reformers By YicelValen Period: 1820 to 1906 Susan B. Anthony Period: 1839 to 1898 Frances Willard 1848 Wisconsin became a state and Frances' father, was a member of the legislature. Period: 1860 to 1935 Jane Addams Period: 1868 to 1963 W.E.B. Du Bois 1869 Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association 1871 Frances Willard was appointed Dean of Women. 1872 Susan B. Anthony voted in the presidential election illegally 1879 Willard became president of the national WCTU and remained president until her death 1889 Hull House, it was called, and had once been in the suburbs of Chicago but now was surrounded by tenements that housed immigrants. 1895 Du Bois Graduates with Phd from Harvard 1905 Du Bois NAACP 1919 DuBois helped organize a Pan-African Conference in France 1919 Jane Addams became president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 1920 Jane Addams was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1920 14 years after Susan's death, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave all adult women the right to vote, was passed 1931 Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize 1961 DuBois joined the U.S. Communist Party and left the United States to live in Ghana, Africa.
