Women's Right

By TalaHadi

  • United States Constitution ratified

    The terms “persons,” “people” and “electors” are used, allowing the interpretation of those beings to include men and women.

  • Hetty Green was born

  • The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name

    (with their husbands’ permission.)

  • Reminisces of My Life in Camp

    By Susie King Taylor

  • Aint I a Woman?

    By Sojourner Truth

  • Little Women

    By Louisa May Alcott

  • Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130:

    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman (Myra Colby Bradwell) from practicing law.

  • Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court

  • Eleanor Roosevelt was born

    New York

  • Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote.

  • The National Association of Colored Women is formed

    bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs.

  • Amelia Earhart was born

    Kansas

  • Every state has passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act

    granting married women some control over their property and earnings.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt leaves school to debut

    New York City

  • Eleanor Roosevelt calls this "the beginning of my independence"

  • Hetty Green dies

  • Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.

    Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic

  • Margaret Sanger wins her suit in New York

    to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes.

  • The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed

    to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women.

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified

    It declares: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

  • Marian Anderson was born