Women's Rights History

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  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • First Women's Rights Convention

    First Women's Rights Convention

    68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • National Women's Suffrage Association

    National Women's Suffrage Association

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement.

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • First State To Grant Voting Rights

    First State To Grant Voting Rights

    Wyoming grants women the right to vote in all elections.

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollutio

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • First Birth Control Clinic

    First Birth Control Clinic

    Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the United States. She eventually founded the American Birth Control League in known as Planned Parenthood.
  • First Women Elected to Congress

    First Women Elected to Congress

    Jeannette Rankin, a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association is sworn in as the first woman elected to Congress as a member of the House of Representatives.
  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Declaring “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.”
  • First Woman to Fly Across Atlantic

    First Woman to Fly Across Atlantic

    Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman, and the second pilot ever to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.

  • Earth Day

    April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established
  • Rosa Parks Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks, a black woman, refuses to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus.
  • FDA Approves Birth Control

    FDA Approves Birth Control

    The Food and Drug Administration approves the first commercially produced birth control pill in the world, allowing women to control when and if they have children.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law. It bans employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or sex.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was

    The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gasses

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation