English Timeline

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
  • Truth "Aint I a Woman."

    Truth "Aint I a Woman."
  • Ida B. Wells Barnett

    Ida B. Wells Barnett
    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was the founder of what may have been the first Black women's suffrage group. She continued to be apart of a few organizations.
  • Sojourner Truth

    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. She continued to speak out for the rights of African Americans and women during and after the Civil War.
  • Susan B Anthony

    Susan B Anthony
    Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist.She was president (1892–1900) of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • Womans Suffrage Parade

    Womans Suffrage Parade
    On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue--the same route that the inaugural parade would take the next day--in a procession organized by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The 1913 parade introduced new activism, energy, tactics, and leadership to the languishing movement.
  • Jankin Rankin, first woman to be elected to Congress

    Jankin Rankin, first woman to be elected to Congress
    In the Republican primary, Rankin received the most votes of the eight Republican candidates. In the at-large general election on November 7, the top two vote-getters won the seats. Rankin finished second in the voting, defeating Frank Bird Linderman, among others, to become the first woman elected to Congress.
  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment
    Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest.
  • Carrie Chapman Catt

    Carrie Chapman Catt
    Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920
  • Shirley Chisholm’s Presidential Announcement Speech

    Shirley Chisholm’s Presidential Announcement Speech
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    The 24th Amendment (1964) sought to remove barriers to voting by prohibiting a poll tax. And the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for adult citizens of all races and genders in the form of federal laws that enforced the amendments.
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement
    Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. Prohibits an employer from treating you differently, or less favorably, because of your sex,
  • Steinem "Testimony before the senate

    Steinem "Testimony before the senate
  • Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement." Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • hayek "Harvey Weinstein is my Monster too."

    hayek "Harvey Weinstein is my Monster too."
  • Mrs America

    Mrs America
  • Ferrera "Barbie"

    Ferrera "Barbie"