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Maria Stewart was the first African American to lecture to mixed male and female audiences
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Sarah Grimké published the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women in a Massachusetts newspaper, The Spectator
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Declaration of Sentiments signed at Seneca Falls Convention
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Ku Klux Klan founded
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Republican and former Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, sworn in as president
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P. B. S. Pinchback became America's first black governor
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded
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The Compromise of 1877 settled the 1876 U.S. presidential election
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Jane Addams founded the Hull House
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First congresswoman, Jeanette Rankin, was sworn in
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19th amendment passed by Congress
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19th amendment ratified
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In Mendez v. Westminster, the California Supreme Court ruled that Orange County had to desegregate their schools
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The Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested
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Martin Luther King Jr. helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
