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women’s suffrage organizations founded Groups
in the late 1800s and early 1900s, founded their own groups to advocate for the rights of African American women and men. Early leaders such as Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell spoke out for their rights as people of color and as women. More Info Here -
The first attempt to organize a national movement for women’s rights
Occurred in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a young mother from upstate New York, and the Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott, about 300 people—most of whom were women—attended the Seneca Falls Convention to outline a direction for the women’s rights movement. More Information here -
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Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form alliance
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a Massachusetts teacher, had both been active in the abolitionist cause to end slavery. After first meeting in 1850, Stanton and Anthony forged a lifetime alliance as women’s rights activists. Following the Civil War, they helped build a movement dedicated to women’s suffrage and pushed lawmakers to guarantee their rights during Reconstruction.More Information here -
James Brooks of New York read into the official record Stanton’s petition
On January 23, 1866, Representative James Brooks of New York read into the official record Stanton’s petition along with an accompanying letter by Anthony. More Information here -
George Washington Julian of Indiana proposes a constitutional amendment
George Washington Julian of Indiana, welcomed the opportunity to enfranchise women. In December 1868, he proposed a constitutional amendment to guarantee citizens the right to vote “without any distinction or discrimination whatever founded on race, color, or sex.” Julian’s resolution never came to a vote, and even Congressmen who favored expanding the electorate were not willing to support women’s suffrage. -
Congress ignores renewed calls to enshrine women’s suffrage in the Constitution
while working to pass an amendment guaranteeing the voting rights of African-American men. More Information here -
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified by the states
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified by the states in 1870, declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” That year, Hiram Rhodes Revels of Mississippi was elected to the Senate and Joseph Hayne Rainey of South Carolina won election to the House. They were the first African-American lawmakers to serve in Congress. -
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During the Civil Rights Movement women were key strategists.
Septima Clark, for example, designed educational programs to teach African American community members how to read and write. She thought this was important in order to vote and gain other rights. Her idea for “citizen education” became the cornerstone of the Civil Right Movement. More Info Here -
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1st African american women elected to congress
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