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1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [57] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. [58]
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
Women's suffrage was established in the United States on a full or partial basis by various towns, counties, states, and territories during the latter decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century.
Catt first had the idea of an international woman suffrage organization in 1900; by 1902 she decided to begin with an exploratory meeting of women from as many countries as possible. [50] The first meeting of the IWSA was held in Berlin, Germany, with 33 delegates present. Catt was elected president.
October 17–18: Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati. [5] 1856. November 25–26: Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention held in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. [5] 1858. May 13–14: Eighth National Woman's Rights Convention held in Mozart Hall in New York City. [5] 1859
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
For other women's rights, see timeline of women's legal rights ... [24] [26] By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England.