Women's Rights in North Carolina

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  • Anne Hutchinson demands that women be allowed to speak in church

    Anne Hutchinson demands that women be allowed to speak in church

    She is banished from her church as a result.
  • Edenton Tea Party Led by Women

    Edenton Tea Party Led by Women

    October 25: Fifty-one “patriotic ladies” gather in Edenton to announce in writing their boycott of East Indian tea as long as it is taxed by the British. This protest, known as the Edenton Tea Party, is one of the first political activities in this country staged by women.
  • Dolly Madison Becomes First Lady

    Dolly Madison Becomes First Lady

    North Carolina native Dolley Madison becomes First Lady when James Madison is inaugurated as the fourth president. She remains one of the most popular First Ladies in the nation’s history.
  • General Council of Cherokee goes against equality of gender.

    General Council of Cherokee goes against equality of gender.

    The General Council of the Cherokee Nation goes against tribal tradition of gender equality by drafting a constitution patterned after that of the United States which excludes women from holding office and denies them franchise.
  • First African American Woman to Obtain A B.A.degree

    First African American Woman to Obtain A B.A.degree

    Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman in the United States to receive a B.A. degree is born in Raleigh.
  • First Women's Christian Temperance Union Chapter Established

    First Women's Christian Temperance Union Chapter Established

    November: The first Woman’s Christian Temperance Union chapter is established in the state in Greensboro. Within a year, 11 more chapters are established and in 1903 the state has 65 chapters and 3,000 members. With the passing of state prohibition in 1908, membership dwindles to 1,000.
  • First Woman to Graduate University of North Carolina

    First Woman to Graduate University of North Carolina

    Sallie Walker Stockard becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of North Carolina. Women have been allowed to attend the summer teachers’ institute in Chapel Hill since 1879, but Stockard is the first female student to earn a degree from the university.
  • 19th Amendment Ratified

    19th Amendment Ratified

    Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing American female citizens the right to vote. It is quietly signed into law in a ceremony to which the press and suffragists are not invited.