Women’s Civil Rights in North Carolina

By wyattmoore

  • 1893

    1893
    March 4: The North Carolina General Assembly passes a law allowing women to cash checks and withdraw money from their personal accounts without obtaining their husbands' permission

  • 1896

    1896
    The National Association of Colored Women, founded by Margaret Murray Washington, unites black women's organizations.

  • 1898

    1898
    Sallie Walker Stockard becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of North Carolina.

  • 1914

    1914
    The first meeting of the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina is held in Charlotte.

  • WW1

    WW1
    During World War I, women move into many jobs, working in heavy industry, mining, chemical manufacturing, and automobile and railway plants. They also run streetcars, conduct trains, direct traffic, and deliver mail

  • First woman elected to congress

    First woman elected to congress
    Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress as a member of the House of Representatives.

  • 19th Amendment is ratified

    19th Amendment is ratified
    the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing American female citizens the right to vote. It is quietly signed into law in a ceremony to which the press and suffragists are not invited.

  • WAAC

    WAAC
    Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). Women who join the corps perform a variety of noncombat tasks formerly done by male soldiers, such as driving military vehicles; rigging parachutes; and serving as translators, cooks, weather forecasters, and aircraft control tower operators.