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Women's Rights Convention
The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. Resolutions are adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men unde the law and voting rights for women. -
"Ain't I A Woman?" speech
Sojourner Truth's spontaneous "Ain't I A Woman?" speech electrifies the woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
7th Women's Rights Convention
Lucy Stone addresses the 7th Women's Rights Convention held in New York City. -
National Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association -
NAWSA: merger
The National Woman Suffrage and American Women Suffrage merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), waging state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women. -
National Association of Colored Women
The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs. -
National Women's Party
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union to work toward the passage of a federal amendment to give women the vote. The group is later renamed the National Women's Party. -
First US Birth Control Clinic
Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York. The clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger arrested; but she wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in New York city in 1923 -
Suffrage Amendment
The federal woman suffrage amendment , originally written by Susan Anthony, and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification. -
19th Amendment signed into law
The 19th Amendment was signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote.
