Women's Rights Movement

By aepursley

  • Seneca Falls

    Seneca Falls
    First women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York

  • National Woman Suffrage Association

    National Woman Suffrage Association
    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form. The main goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women.

  • Colorado is first state to adopt amendment to allow women the right to vote

    Colorado is first state to adopt amendment to allow women the right to vote

  • Margaret Sanger

    Opens first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Clinic shut down 10 days later, Sanger arrested

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Women granted right to vote

  • FDA approves birth control pills

  • Roe v. Wade

    Women's right to safe and legal abortion