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Delegates of the Seneca Falls Convention issue a bold declaration calling for equal women's rights. This convention was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Woman in Wyoming in 1869 were the first American women allowed to vote
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This organization focused on winning the right to vote state-by-state
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In the late 1800's employment opportunities for educated middle-class woman grew. They were able to work as teachers, nurses. ect.
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Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters staged a protest. They all registered to vote and proceded to vote in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later they were arrested
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The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, that still didn't give them the right to vote.
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In 1894, Alberta Virginia Scott entered Radcliffe and studied science and classics.
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Scott was invited by Booker T. Washington to teach at Tuskegee Institute. Sadly, she became ill and died a year later.
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She graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
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The National Association of Colored Women included people like Ida B. WellsBarnett, Margaret Murray Washington, and Harriet Tubman. It was formed to campaign against poverty, segregation and lynchings.
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This Amendment prohibited the production, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. It was ratified in 1919 but was so unpopular that it was repealed in 1933
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified. Women now have the right to vote.
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In 1920, the Prohibition Movement began. It made it so the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages were banned. This movement ended in 1933
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Otelia Cromwell retires.
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Cromwell receives an honorary degree from Smith
