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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.
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Sojourner Truth's spontaneous "Ain't I A Woman?" speech electrifies the woman's rights convention in Akron, Ohio.
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Lucy Stone addresses the 7th Women's Rights Convention held in New York City.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association
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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.
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The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The 19th Amendment was signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, granting women the right to vote.
