Timeline of Women's Suffrage

By trahim

  • College Acceptance

    Colleges such as Oberlin Colleges were starting admitting women as well as men

  • Equal Rights

    Delegates to Seneca Falls Convention, which was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, issue a bold declaration calling for equal rights for women

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Women are not satisfied with the fact that the Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote, but not the women

  • First Right to Vote

    Women in the Wyoming territory were some of the first women in America to finally grab the right to vote

  • Education

    About 20% of all college students were women

  • Testing the Law

    In 1872 Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. The registered to vote, they voted in Rochester, NY, and two weeks later were arrested.

  • Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote

  • Organizations Merge

    In 1890 the National Women Suffrage Association and American Women Suffrage Association merge and for the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

  • NACW

    One of the largest organizations of African American women was founded, the National Association of Colored Women.

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment was ratified. It guaranteed women the right to vote