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National Women’s Suffrage Movement formed
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Women’s Suffrage Movement
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Jeanette Rankin elected to Congress
She was elected to the U.S. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana. Missoula County, Montana, U.S. -
Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in the United States
together with her sister Ethel Byrne and activist Fania Mindell. Opened the country's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. -
19th Amendment of the United States
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged. By the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Civil Rights Movement launched
A major catalyst in the push for civil rights was in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. -
The Alaska Equal Rights Act signed into law
The Daily Alaska Empire printed that her testimony "shamed the opposition into a 'defensive whisper. '" The bill was signed by Governor Gruening. -
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Women’s Liberation Movement
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FDA Approves first birth control pill
DA avoided the question of long-term safety by approving contraceptive usage of Enovid for no more than two years at a time. It's a pill that controls your baby's. -
The Feminine Mystique was written
United States. First published by W. W. Norton on February 19, 1963, The Feminine Mystique became a bestseller, initially selling over a million copies. -
Equal Pay Act was signed into law
historic legislation recognized that women's work and their fair and equal treatment in the workplace is vital to our country's economic prosperity. -
Civil Rights Act signed into law
Despite Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by -
Title IX was passed into law
Title IX is the most commonly used name for the landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. -
Roe v. Wade Court Case
the Supreme Court issued its landmark 7–2 decision in Roe v. Wade, protecting a woman's constitutional right to choose -
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match
Battle of the Sexes, exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs that took place on September 20, 1973, inside the Astrodome in Houston. -
Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in to US Supreme Court
She was the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court. El Paso, Texas, but her family lived on a cattle ranch in Arizona.