Women's History Timeline

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  • Edenton Tea Party

    Edenton Tea Party

    one of the first staged political protest staged by women.
  • Ethel H. Porter

    Ethel H. Porter

    -receives a patent for her inventions relating to cutting feed for livestock. Widely known as the first patented women from North Carolina
  • North Carolina's First Women's College

    North Carolina's First Women's College

    Greensboro College was the first chartered college for women, was opened and operated by the Methodist Church
  • Womens Right to Own Property

    Womens Right to Own Property

    The North Carolina legislature passed a new law that granted women the right to own property and businesses, to work for their own wage, sue in court, make wlls, and contract without husbands consent.

    -labor union supports equal pay for equal work.
  • Sallie Walker Stockard

    Sallie Walker Stockard

    -was the first women to graduate from Chapel Hills teachers institute. Women have been allowed to attend since 1879.
  • Equal Suffrage League

    Equal Suffrage League

    The first meeting was held in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

    Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

    "WAAC" was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This bill made it to where women can join the corps to perform a variety of noncombat tasks.

  • Loretta Lynch

    Becomes the first African American women to become attorney general of the United States