Women’s Rights Movement

By austin atherton
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    Women’s Suffrage Movement

  • National Women’s Suffrage Movement formed

    National Women’s Suffrage Movement formed

  • Jeanette Rankin elected to Congress

    Jeanette Rankin elected to Congress

  • Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the United States

    Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the United States

  • 19th Amendment of the United States

    19th Amendment of the United States

  • The Alaska Equal Rights Act signed into law

    The Alaska Equal Rights Act signed into law

  • Civil Rights Movement launched

    Civil Rights Movement launched

  • FDA Approves first birth control pill

    FDA Approves first birth control pill

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    Women’s Liberation Movement

  • Equal Pay Act was signed into law

    Equal Pay Act was signed into law

  • The Feminine Mystique was written

    The Feminine Mystique was written

  • Civil Rights Act signed into law

    Civil Rights Act signed into law

    Despite Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by Congress on July 2, 1964.
  • Title IX was passed into law

    Title IX was passed into law

  • Roe v. Wade Court Case

    Roe v. Wade Court Case

  • “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match

    “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match

    Battle of the Sexes, exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs that took place on September 20, 1973, inside the Astrodome in Houston.
  • Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in to US Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in to US Supreme Court