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19th Amendment
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Calls Over Womans Sufferage
Made powerful calls towards womans sufferage. This led to a campaign being made and led by women to help secure voting rights. -
Seneca Falls Convention
A call was made for womens sufferage. This created a campaign that was led by women to try and secure voting rights. This was the first large gathering dedicated to women’s rights in the U.S., attendees drafted and signed a document called the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration called for civil, social, political, and religious rights for women -
Women are Denied Voting Rights
An amendment is introduced to help womans sufferage. The amendment is denied in a vote of 9-37 -
The "Susan B. Anthony" Amendment
Senator Aaron Sargent introduces a clause fight for womans sufferage. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The next day suffragist testify for the first time before senators on the issue of sufferage. -
Womans Sufferage Commitee
A commitee is created to help womans sufferage -
Annual Womans Sufferage Confrence
This was the follow up to the Seneca Convention and continued to help women fight for their voting and other rights. -
Carrie Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B Anthony as director of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Carrie Chapman Catt, a woman from Charles City Iowa, spent her life fighting for women's suffrage. She graduated from Iowa State and served as teacher, principal, and Superintendent of Mason City School. One of the first women in the US to lead a public school district -
Black Women Fight for Seperate Rights
While white women had to fight for their rights and help organization leaders who were trying to get their rights approved, black women were often left out from participating so they had to advocate for themselves. A woman named Mary Terrell was an activist who fought for women suffrage and rights towards African Americans. -
Womens Sufferage Parade
The first national womens sufferage parade was help in Washinton D.C., sufferagist who were marching were assulted by spectators. It was concluded that “uniformed and…special police acted with more or less indifference while on duty.” -
Senate Defeats Amendment for the Second Time
Senate takes the amendment to vote and it falls 11 votes short of the required 2/3 needed. -
President Wilson Pleads with Senate
Woodrow Wilson, who had became an active sufferagist, pleads with the Senate to pass the amendment. -
Amendment Falls 1 Vote Short
Senate doesnt approve of the amendment and falls 1 vote short of the required 2/3. -
SENATE APPROVES THE AMENDMENT
After many years of debate senate finally approves the amendment to provide for womens sufferage -
SENATE APPROVES THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
4 decades after passing the Susan B. Anthony amendment, President Johnson signs into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965