Timeline of Women's Suffrage

By 123zstone

  • More access to Higher Educaton

    Women were granted admission to Oberlin College in Ohio

  • 15th Amendment

    This amendement granted African American men the vote, suffragists wanted the vote for women as well

  • National Women Suffrage Association

    This was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

  • American Women Suffrage Association

    It was founded in 1869 and focused on winning the right to vote on a state by state basis. It was aligned with the Republican party and Henry Ward Beecher was president

  • 20% of College Students were Women

  • First Women Presidential candidate

    Victoria Woodhull was supported by NWSA as first female presidential candidate

  • Susan B Anthony dramatic protest-

    Susan B Anthnony and three of her sisters registered to Vote and on Election Day voted in Rochester NY. Two weeks later they were arrested.

  • Supreme Court Ruling-denying women the right to vote

    The Supreme court voted that even though women were citizens that this did not give them the right to vote

  • National American Suffrage Association

    In 1890, the NWSA and the AMSA merged under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B Anthony was president from 1892 to 1900

  • National Association of Colored Women

    African American women founded this association because they were not welcome in most reform organizations. Promininent members like Harriet Tubman, Margaret Murray Washington and Ida B Wells-Barnett

  • Over one third of college students were women

  • 11,207 female artists, and 2193 female journalists

    According to the census in 1900, female artists were 11,207 up from 412 in 1870 and 2193 female journalists up from 35 in 1879

  • Federal Children's Bureau

    Lillian Wald campaigned for the creation of a federal agency for the well being of children. The Federal Children's Bureau was created in 1912

  • Women win the right to Vote