Women's Civil Rights in North Carolina

By cassidycaskaddon
  • Newspaper

    Newspaper

    Elizabeth Timothy becomes the first woman in America to edit a newspaper, South Carolina Gazette
  • Patent

    Patent

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

    Charitable Society

    The Newbern Female Charitable Society is founded to help destitute female children
  • Oberlin College

    Oberlin College

    Oberlin College becomes the first coeducational college in the United States
  • N.C. Patent

    N.C. Patent

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

    Greensboro College

    Greensboro College is North Carolina's first chartered college for women
  • Constitutional Amendment

    Constitutional Amendment

    Alice Paul and the National Women's Party succeed in having a constitutional amendment introduced in Congress stating: "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
  • Women for Office

    Women for Office

    Margaret Taylor Harper enters the race for lieutenant governor of North Carolina, becoming the first woman to run for statewide office