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Women Activists
Beginning in the 1800s women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote -
Seneca Falls
The first women's rights convention in the United States. At the conference, activists and leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the declaration of sentiments, which called for women's equal rights. -
Black Suffragists Organize National Group
A group of women including Harriet Tubman, Frances E.W. Harper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell formed the National Association of Colored Women clubs. In addition the organization advocates for equal pay, educational opportunities, job training, and access to child care for Black women -
Wyoming Grants Rights
The Wyoming territorial legislature granted women the right to vote and to hold public office. Wyoming was the first state to grant the right women the right to vote. -
Suffragists Arrested for Voting in NY
Susan B. Anthony and more than a dozen more women are arrested in Rochester New York after illegally voting in the presidential election. -
First Introduced
On this day the 19th amendment was first introduced to congress. The women that led the group that helped get the amendment get into the congress ne what they wanted and tried their hardest to get it there and they were successful in doing so. -
NAWSA Forms
The two sides of the women's movement reunite, forming the National Woman suffrage association. With Stanton as president, the organization focuses on a state-by-state fight for voting rights -
Suffrage Organizations
By 1916, almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment. -
NWP
The National women's party Fought for women's rights for more than a century starting in 1913 members marched, picketed, and demanded gender equality, and used those lessons, triumphs, and victories to carry their work forward, and it was formed by Alice Paul. -
Passed by House and Senate
On this day the House of Representatives passed the amendment and 2 weeks later the Senate followed. The measure passed the House 304 to 89 a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority, two weeks later the senate passed the amendment by two votes over the two-thirds required majority, 56 to 25 -
Ratification of The Amendment
Congress ratified the amendment on August 18, 1920. It took congress 15 months after it was introduced to get it ratified by three-fourths of the states. -
Bainbridge Colby
Secretary of state Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification, changing the face of the American electorate forever