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Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers.
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July 19-20: Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, issuing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1848/a/seneca_declartn.htm
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First National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Sojourner Truth defends woman's rights and "Negroes' rights" at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio.
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http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/stoneblackwellmarriageprotest.htmlLucy Stone and Henry Blackwell married in a ceremony renouncing the legal authority of a husband over a wife, and Stone kept her last name.
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American Equal Rights Association to join causes of black suffrage and women's suffrage
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15th Amendment ratified, adding the word "male" to the Constitution for the first time.
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American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe.
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Wyoming territory includes woman suffrage.
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15th Amendment adopted, prohibiting states from preventing citizens from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." From 1870 - 1875, women attempted to use the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to justify voting and the practice of law.
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Republican Party platform included a reference to woman suffrage.
Campaign was initiated by Susan B. Anthony to encourage women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification. -
Susan B. Anthony and others attempted to vote; some, including Anthony, are arrested.
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Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting.
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January 10: The "Anthony Amendment" to extend the vote to women was introduced for the first time in the United States Congress. First Senate committee hearing on the Anthony Amendment.
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The United States Senate voted on woman suffrage for the first time -- and also for the last time in 25 years.
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Colorado passed by referendum an amendment to their state constitution, giving women the right to vote. Colorado was the first to amend its constitution to grant woman suffrage.
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Women marched up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the vote.
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Women in Illinois were given the vote in most elections -- the first state East of the Mississippi to pass a woman suffrage law.
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About 5,000 paraded for woman suffrage up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
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Montana elected Jeannette Rankin to the United States Congress.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association officers meet with President Wilson. National Woman's Party began picketing the White House.
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House of Representatives passed the Anthony Amendment but the Senate failed to pass it.
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A court declared invalid the White House suffrage protest arrests
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Tennessee legislature ratified the Anthony Amendment by a single vote, giving the Amendment the necessary states for ratification.
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United States Secretary of State signed the Anthony Amendment into law.
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Equal Rights Amendment introduced into the United States Congress, proposed by the National Woman's Party.
