Timeline project

By barbie9703

  • Women's Advocacy in the White House.

    Women's Advocacy in the White House.
    The GPC covers a range of issues—including economic security, health, gender-based violence and education—with a focus on gender equity and equality, and particular attention to the barriers faced by women and girls.

  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence
    The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based.

  • "Aint i a woman" - Sojourner Truth

    "Aint i a woman" - Sojourner Truth
    The purpose of this was trying to persuade people that women, black or white, should be treated as equal to men. They should have rights just like men.

  • What to the slave, is the 4th of July - Frederick Douglass

    What to the slave, is the 4th of July - Frederick Douglass
    Its a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

  • First Woman to Run for President

    First Woman to Run for President
    Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election.

  • Woman Suffrage Parade.

    Woman Suffrage Parade.
    The event brought women from around the country to Washington in a show of strength and determination to obtain the ballot.

  • Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress.

    Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress.
    Rankin finished second in the voting, defeating Frank Bird Linderman, among others, to become the first woman elected to Congress. During her victory speech, she said, "I am deeply conscious of the responsibility resting upon me" as the only woman in the nation with voting power in Congress.

  • Women Achieve the Right to Vote.

    Women Achieve the Right to Vote.
    Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.

  • Letter to my nephew - James Baldwin

    Letter to my nephew - James Baldwin
    This letter is meant to serve as a caution to him of the harsh realities of being black in the United States.

  • Barbie

    Barbie
    You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. "You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin.