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by France's National Constituent Assembly -
by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
In 1833 Mott, along with Mary Ann M'Clintock and nearly 30 other female abolitionists, organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Additionally, after the Civil War, Mott was dismayed that the suffrage movement divided over support for the 15th amend- ment that guaranteed the vote to black men but not women. She advised accepting the amendment, while also working for the passage of a national women's suffrage amendment. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American leader in the women's rights movement. In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, she drafted the first organized demand for women's suffrage in the United States. Stanton authored, “The Declaration of Sentiments,” which expanded on the Declaration of Independence by adding the word “woman” or “women” throughout. -
In the first women’s rights convention organized by women, the Seneca Falls Convention is held in New York, with 300 attendees, including organizers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Sixty-eight women and 32 men (including Frederick Douglass) signed the Declaration of Sentiments, which sparked decades of activism. This led to the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. -
Speech by Sojourner Truth -
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which coordinated the national suffrage movement. The pair believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women's rights activists should fight for women to be included as well. They started the NWSA to lead this effort. Stanton and Anthony established the NWSA's headquarters in New York City. -
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights. She and other women led others to form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which chose to focus on state suffrage amendments. By 1871 Stone had helped organize the publication of The Woman’s Journal and was co-editing the newspaper with her husband Henry Blackwell. -
short story by Kate Chopin -
She was one of three women that took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement. She was also a lesbian, promoting lesbian relationships and protecting women in general, showing the unity she promoted during the movement. -
Short story by Susan Glaspell -
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for women's suffrage in the United States. She was president (1892–1900) of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote (this is the most important part of her influence). -
During America’s early history, women were denied many basic rights granted to their male counterparts. The 19th Amendment made it illegal to deny the right to vote to any citizen based on their sex, which effectively granted women the right to vote. It was first introduced to Congress in 1878 and was finally certified 42 years later in 1920. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson, signs the Civil Rights Act into law; Title VII bans employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or sex. Addressing a joint session of Congress just after Kennedy's death, Johnson urged members of Congress to honor Kennedy's memory by passing a civil rights bill to end racial discrimination and segregation everywhere publicly. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
President John F. Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act, prohibiting sex-based wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job in the same workplace. This was among the first federal laws in American history to address gender discrimination. In signing it into law, Kennedy praised it as a “significant step forward,” but acknowledged that “much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity” for women. -
Speech by Gloria Steinem for equal rights -
article by Clive Thompson -
Article by Maya Salam