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Women’s Suffrage
Women couldn't own property, and they had to give any money they made over to their husbands. They also weren't allowed to vote. By the mid-1800s, women started to fight back, demanding suffrage, or the right to vote. These women were called suffragists. -
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National Women’s Suffrage Movement formed
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Later that year, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and others formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. However, not until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 did women throughout the nation gain the right to vote. -
Jeanette Rankin elected to Congress
She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term -
Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the United States
together with her sister Ethel Byrne and activist Fania Mindell — opened the country's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. -
19th Amendment of the United States
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. -
The Alaska Equal Rights Act signed into law
The Daily Alaska Empire printed that her testimony "shamed the opposition into a 'defensive whisper. '" The bill was signed by Governor Gruening into law on February 16, 1945. -
Civil Rights Movement launched
A major catalyst in the push for civil rights was in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. -
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Women’s Liberation Movement
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. -
FDA Approves first birth control pill
Eventually, the FDA avoided the question of long-term safety by approving contraceptive usage of Enovid for no more than two years at a time -
The Feminine Mystique was written
The Feminine Mystique is a book by Betty Friedan, widely credited with sparking second-wave feminism in the United States. -
Equal Pay Act was signed into law
historic legislation recognized that women's work—and their fair and equal treatment in the workplace—is vital to our country's economic prosperity. -
Civil Rights Act signed into law
Despite Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Title IX was passed into law
Title IX is the most commonly used name for the landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. -
Roe v. Wade Court Case
the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right -
Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in to US Supreme Court
When Justice Potter Stewart retired in 1981, President Reagan fulfilled that promise by nominating O'Connor, noting that she was a “person for all seasons.” -
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match
In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women