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First women's rights convention
The World Anti-Slavery Convention is held in London. Abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend, but they are barred from participating in the meeting. This snub leads them to decide to hold a women's rights convention when they return to America. -
Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
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The Civil War
Suffrage efforts nearly come to a complete halt as women put their enfranchisement aside and pitch in for the war effort. -
Eleventh National Women's right convention
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14th amendment passage granted former slaves the right to vote.
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National Woman Suffrage Association
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15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified. Although its gender-neutral language appears to grant women the vote, women who go to the polls to test the amendment are turned away -
Anthony retires
Anthony retires as the president of the National American and, to the surprise of many, recommends Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor; Catt is elected.Anthony retires as the president of the National American and, to the surprise of many, recommends Car -
Alice Paul Parade
Suffragist Alice Paul organizes 8,000 women for a parade through Washington. She becomes the leader of the Congressional Union (CU), a militant branch of the National American association. -
The VOTE
Despite the political subversion of anti-suffragists, particularly in Tennessee, three quarters of state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August. American women win full voting rights.
