Women's rights over the years

By HarrisonO
  • First women in the new world

    First women in the new world

    Virginia Dare was the first English woman born in the new world.
  • Women's efforts in war

    Women's efforts in war

    Women played an important role in the revolutionary war by being nurses and tending to the injured on the battlefield.
  • Women innovating

    Women innovating

    Mrs. Samuel Slater, the inventor of cotton sewing thread, becomes the first American woman to receive a patent.
  • The first lady

    The first lady

    Dolly Madison a North Carolina native becomes the first lady when James Madison is inaugurated.
  • Women go to college

    Women go to college

    Greensboro College was North Carolina’s first chartered college for women, was opened and operated by the Methodist Church.
  • African American women attending college

    African American women attending college

    Mary Jane Patterson becomes the first African American woman to receive a B. A degree is born in Raleigh.
  • Womens rights convention

    Womens rights convention

    The first national women's rights convention attracts over 1,000 participants to Worcester, Massachusetts, from as far away as California. Only lack of space keeps hundreds more from attending. Annual national conferences were held through 1860.
  • First African American women to become a lawyer

    First African American women to become a lawyer

    Elreta Alexander becomes the first African American woman to be a licensed lawyer in North Carolina.