Civil Rights Movement

By hakunamatata334

  • American Colonies

    New colonies decided to adopt the English way of law and decreed that women were not allowed to own property or keep money earned.

  • Law Passed

    All current states within the United States pass a law that denies women the right to vote.

  • Right to Hold Property

    Mississippi becomes the first state allowing women to have property in their names, as long as their husband gives permission.

  • Declaration of Sentiments

    300 men and women sign the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, New York. This declaration was a plea for the end of discrimination against women.

  • 14th Amendment

    The 14th Amendment is signed into the U.S. Constitution, stating "citizens" and "voters" are "male".

  • First Woman Lawyer

    Arabella Mansfield is allowed to practice law in Iowa, becoming the first woman lawyer. The same year Ada H. Kepley became the first woman to graduate law school.

  • Equal Pay

    Federal employees are given equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender.

  • Women Try to Vote

    Susan B. Anthony tests the 14th Amendment on its definition of "citizens" and "voters" by casting her vote. She is then convicted of unlawful voting.

  • First Female Presidential Candidate

    Victoria Claflin Woodhull is nominated by the National Radical Reformers as the first female to run for president.

  • First Woman Mayor

    Susanna Medora Salter is elected the first woman mayor or Argonia, Kansas.

  • Women Votes

    Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women the right to vote.

  • Wages and Property

    All states have now passed laws allowing married women the right to keep their wages and own property in their names.

  • Women Suffrage Procession

    Alice Paul got 80,000 women to walk with her in protest of women's rights the day before the inauguration of President Wilson.

  • National Women's Party

    Alice Paul created the National Women's Party and used methods learned during her work in the British suffrage movement.

  • U.S. House of Representatives

    The first woman is elected to the House of Representative, Jeanette Rankin from Montana.

  • Birth Control Clinic

    Margaret Sanger opens a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Silent Sentinels

    For two years, the National Woman's Party held a silent protest outside of the White House. For six days every week, women would wear white, stay silent, and held signs demanding the right to vote.

  • Birth Control Pt. 2

    Margaret Sanger wins a suit granting New York doctors the right to advise married patients about birth control in regards to health.

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Women are given the right to vote across the United States

  • Equal Rights Amendment

    "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."

  • U.S. Senate

    First woman is elected to the U.S. Senate, a Hattie Wyatt Caraway from Arkansas.

  • National Recovery Act

    This act made it so only one person from a family can hold a government job. This Act cost many women their jobs and earning.

  • Secretary of Labor

    Appointed by President Roosevelt, Frances Perkins became the first female cabinet member.

  • Astronaut Program

    The first woman to go through astronaut testing was Jerrie Cobb. NASA cancels the program before any woman makes it to space.

  • Equal Pay Act

    Congress passes the Equal Pay Act, giving all workers the same wages regardless of color, race, religion, origin, or gender.

  • Civil Rights Act

    This Act made it so no one could be discriminated in the workplace based on color, religion, origin, or gender.