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William Lloyd Garrison is born in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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William's father becomes unemployed.
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Margaret Fuller born.
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Tutored by father, guided as boys were for Harvard. Learned Latin, read Plutarch, Ovid, Shakespeare, Fielding, Cicero, Cervantes. Attended Cambridge Port Private Grammar School, studied Greek at Dr. Park’s Boston Lyceum, boarded at Miss Prescott’s Seminary, Groton, MA. Returned home, scheduled rigid self-education, avidly read classics. Moved to Dana mansion, Cambridge, MA.
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Garrison age 14, began to work as an apprentice compositor for Newburyport.
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William's mother died in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson born.
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Editor of National Philanthorpist in Boston.
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Founded New England Anti-Slavery Society.
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Father dies.
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Met Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became influential friend and introduced her into circle of Transcendentalists, largely male ministers rebelling against traditional religion and defining new thought of Transcendentalism.
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Higginson enters Harvard College when he is 13 years old.
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Taught teenage girls at Greene Street School in Providence, RI and began to formulate specialized curricula for girls.
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Thomas graduates.
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Completed Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Fishkill, New York, first American book-length treatment advocating equality.
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Became first woman foreign correspondent. She traveled Europe and covered conditions of poverty, coal miners, the common worker.
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Higginson was chosen by the First Religious Society of Newburyport as its pastor.
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Settled in Rome where Marchese Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a Roman nobleman, became her husband.
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He became active on behalf of women by signing the call for the first national women’s rights convention.
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Margaret Fuller dies. She departed Italy on a merchant ship with Ossoli and her two year-old sonbound for America. On July 19 gale winds stormed and ship struck sand bar off shores of Fire Island, New York, broke apart, and sank to bottom of ocean.
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in 1854 he led a vigilante assault to free a fugitive slave from a federal courthouse, in the course of which a marshal was shot to death.
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Jane Addams born
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Jane Addams attends Rockford Female Seminary
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William Lloyd Garrison dies.
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Lucy Burns born in Brooklyn, New York.
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Common Sense About Women published.
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Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago.
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Jane Addams becomes the vice president of the National Women's Trade Union League.
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She studied at the University of Berlin in Germany.
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Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work).
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Became an activist with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union.
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Worked as a suffrage organizer in Scotland.
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1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association and 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson dies.
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Returns to the United States.
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Returns to the United States.
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Founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
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Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman.
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Burns was a driving force behind the picketing of President Woodrow Wilson’s administration in Washington, D.C.
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Lucy was among those in the Occoquan Workhouse who instigated hunger strikes.
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Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President.
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1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
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Jane Addams passes away in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois.
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Lucy Burns dies.