The Fight for Women's Rights

By chesijayde

  • Lucretia Mott forms Female Antislavery Society

  • World Anti Slavery Convention

    This is the convention where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. It marked the beginning of their fight for equal rights with men.

  • 1st Seneca Falls Convention

    A convention with over 300 men and women in attendance that fought for equal rights.

  • Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

    The first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize.

  • Jeannette Rankin 1st Women Elected to Congress

  • Women Earn Voting Right

    Along with the UK, The United States granted women the right to vote.

  • League of Women Voters Founded

  • Amelia Earhart is the first woman to make a nonstop Transcontinental Flight

  • Rosa Parks Takes a Stand

    The famous civil disobedience act that sparked a revolution performed by a powerful woman, Rosa Sparks.

  • Equal Pay Act passed by Congress

    In this year women were declared by law to earn the same amount as men indiscriminately.