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On the Equality of Sexes by Judith Sargent Murray
It was published in 2 issues of Massachusetts Magazine and it talks about the deprivation of female education and traditional male dominance at that time. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She was an influential figure in the civil rights movement of the Nineteenth Century. Stanton advocated the end of slavery, and equal rights for women and black Americans. After the American civil war, Stanton became increasingly focused on the issue of female suffrage and feminist issues. -
Queen Victoria
The second longest reigning Queen of the British monarchy, ruling the UK and Ireland for 63 years. Independently, she strengthened the monarchy even though she faced a lot of struggles. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
When she graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College, in 1849, she became the first woman in America to earn an M.D. degree. She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers. By establishing the New York Infirmary in 1857, she offered a practical solution to one of the problems facing women: being rejected from internships, but determined to expand their skills as physicians. She also published several important books on the issue of women in medicine. -
Sarah Grimke is silenced by male abolitionists.
Sarah Moore Grimke was an American abolitionist, writer, and member of the women's suffrage movement. Speaking on the abolitionist lecture circuit and is among the first women to speak in political issues. She recounted their know ledge of slavery firsthand, urged abolition, and also became a lawyer for women's rights. However, her initial attempts to stop slavery caused her difficulties. She continued to be attacked by some male abolitionists who considered their position extreme. -
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
An American women's right advocate.Her book was influential in changing perception of men and women. -
Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
It is a literary work written by Sojourner Truth whom was born into slavery. Sometime after she grew up and got her freedom, she became very well known for her anti-slavery speeches. -
Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote.
She was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivot role in the women's suffrage movement. Susan believed that the recently adopted 14th amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote since it said that "all person's born and nationalised in the United States are citizens of the U.S." She went to test it out on November 1872 to vote and was arrested on 13 days later for voting illegally. -
Supreme Court Denies Voting Rights To Women.
Supreme Court comes up with a law called Missouri law limiting the rights to vote only to male citizens and denies female. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was a politician, diplomat, and activist. She joined the league of women voter in the year 1920 and the women's trade union league in 1922. By 1928, she didn't only organise one of the most successful get out and vote campaigns, but she had also called for women bosses. She was committed to grant women full rights. -
Female athletes excluded from Olympics
Female athletes were excluded on April 6 from the 1896 Olympic Games because the founder Pierre De Coubertin felt their participation would be very inappropriate. -
Margaret Sanger opens a control clinic to have her arrested later on.
The nurse and women’s-rights activist opened the first American birth-control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn.Sanger’s clinic was illegal; as a result, a few days later, the clinic was raided. Sanger tried to reopen the clinic twice more, but didn't succeed. In 1921, Sanger formed the American Birth Control League, the organization that eventually became Planned Parenthood. In 1923, after she won the support of the court, she opens another clinic in New York. -
19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.
