Women's History in NC By 12195737 Aug 18, 1587 Virginia Dare was the first child born in the New World 1738 Elizabeth Timothy becomes the first women in America to edit a newspaper, the South Carolina Gazette. Period: 1770 to 1787 Women helped the armies during the Revolutionary War. Oct 25, 1774 Ladies gathered to create the Edenton Tea Party. 1809 Dolley Madison becomes the first lady to President James Madison. 1833 Oberlin College allows women to enroll. Jul 19, 1848 First Women's Rights Convention 1866 The Fourteenth Amendment is passed. 1868 North Carolina passes a law allowing women to own land, own businesses, work for their own wages and sue without their husbands consent. 1898 Sally Walker Stockard becomes the first women to graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May 10, 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade 1949 Susie Sharp becomes the first female superior court judge. 1964 Title VII of Civil Right's The government investigates gender equality in private workplaces. 2008 Beverly Perdue is the first women governor in NC.
