Major developments in Womens Rights from 1877 through present day

By jessicagerdeman1
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    Major Development in Women Rights from 1877 through Present Day

  • Colorado is the first state to allow women to vote

  • The national association of colored women is formed

  • National womeans trade union league- improve wages and working conditions

  • Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic

  • Women suffrage amendment written by Susan B Anthony is passed by House of Representatives and sent to states for radification

  • 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

  • Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the national council of black women- lobbies against discrimination, racism, ans sexism.

  • President John Kennedy establishes the president commission on the status of women and makes Eleanor Roosevelt chairwoman

  • National Organization for Women (NOW)

  • Congress passes equal pay act making it illegal for somebody to pay a woman less than a man for the same job