Maria Stewart was the first African American to lecture to mixed male and female audiences
Sarah Grimké published the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women in a Massachusetts newspaper, The Spectator
Declaration of Sentiments signed at Seneca Falls Convention
Ku Klux Klan founded
Republican and former Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, sworn in as president
P. B. S. Pinchback became America's first black governor
The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded
The Compromise of 1877 settled the 1876 U.S. presidential election
Jane Addams founded the Hull House
First congresswoman, Jeanette Rankin, was sworn in
19th amendment passed by Congress
19th amendment ratified
In Mendez v. Westminster, the California Supreme Court ruled that Orange County had to desegregate their schools
The Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
