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Alice Paul earned three law degrees from University of Pennsylvania.
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On July 27th, 1919, the Chicago Race Riot happened. An African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans, concentrated on the South Side neighborhood surrounding the stockyards, many people died.
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The “RED SUMMER” of 1919 marked the culmination of steadily growing tensions surrounding the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North that took place during World War I.
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Suffrage leader Lucy Burns (1879-1966) was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, probably in November 1917, after she and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women the right to vote.
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The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.
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Alice Paul was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman-suffrage movement. Born in 1885 to a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey, Paul was well-educated–she earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania–and determined to win the vote by any means necessary.
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The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
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The U.S. Civil War caused the movement to come to a halt. At that time efforts were made in favor of granting citizenship and voting rights to men.
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Elizabeth Smith Miller debuted a knee-length skirt with full Turkish-style pantaloons gathered at the ankle.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton met in 1850 were they became life long friends where they published a paper called the Revolution from January 8, 1968 to February 17, 1970. www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/biography.html
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The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Mass., attracting more than 1,000 participants.
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A conference at Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton took up the issue of Women's Rights and planted the seeds of the suffrage movement in the US.
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In 1847, Lincoln took his seat in the United States House of Representatives after serving a single two year term.
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NewYork gave freed black the right to vote.
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Slave trade in Great Britain was abolished.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-abolishes-the-african-slave-trade
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Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States.
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Only white male adult property-owners have the right to vote.
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The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs. Leaders in the black women's club movement included Mrs. Mary Church Terrell (President), Mrs. Fanny Jackson Coppin (First Vice President), Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Second Vice President), Mrs. F. E. W. Harper (Third Vice President) http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/national-association-colored-womens
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Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, the right for women to vote.
