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Some notable events: READ: Women's March Could Usher in the Next Year of the Woman. 1769 – The colonies adopt the English system decreeing women cannot own property in their own name or keep...
From a plea to a founding father, to the suffragists to Title IX, to the first female political figures, women have blazed a steady trail towards equality in the United States. Explore famous...
Timeline of Legal History of Women in the United States. 1701 The first sexually integrated jury hears cases in Albany, New York. 1769 American colonies based their laws on the English common law, which was summarized in the Blackstone Commentaries.
Women’s rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and ’70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the ‘second wave’ of feminism.
This timeline covers the years of 1789 to 2022, which includes the famed women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
The women's rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades‑long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified...
Petition for Universal Suffrage. Petition was part of the first national drive to focus on women’s voting rights and includes signatures of some of the most prominent advocates at the time: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
December 10, 1948. United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, the newly-formed United Nations (UN) adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international...
Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in Congress. Caroline Seymour Severance establishes the New England Woman’s Club. The “Mother of Clubs” sparked the club movement which became popular by the late nineteenth century.