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Women's Civil Rights

By kyrachilders03
  • Virginia Dare

    Virginia Dare

    Virginia Dare becomes the first English child born in the New World.
  • Dinah Nuthead

    Dinah Nuthead

    Dinah Nuthead becomes the first woman printer in the country, in Annapolis, Maryland, by continuing her husband’s business after his death.
  • Elizabeth Timothy

    Elizabeth Timothy

    Elizabeth Timothy becomes the first woman in America to edit a newspaper, the South Carolina Gazette.
  • Mrs.Samuel Slater

    Mrs.Samuel Slater

    Mrs. Samuel Slater, the inventor of cotton sewing thread, becomes the first American to receive a patent.
  • Dolley Madison

    Dolley Madison

    North Carolina native Dolley Madison becomes First Lady when James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president. She remains one of the most popular First Ladies in the nation’s history.
  • Catherine Ann Devereux

    Catherine Ann Devereux

    Catherine Ann Devereux is born in Halifax County. A member of the wealthy antebellum elite, she keeps a journal during the Civil War that is published in 1979.
  • Ethel H. Porter

    Ethel H. Porter

    Ethel H. Porter, of Lincolnton, patents her invention related to cutting feed for horses and cattle. This was the first known patent issued to a North Carolina woman.
  • Greensboro College

    Greensboro College

    Greensboro College, North Carolina’s first chartered college for women, is opened and operated by the Methodist Church.