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The University of Iowa becomes the first state school to admit women.
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In San Francisco, about 85% of Chinese women are essentially enslaved as prostitutes.
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Of 2,225,086 Black women, 1,971,135 are held in slavery.
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Iowa is the first state to admit a woman to the bar:
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Charlotte E. Ray, Howard University law school graduate, becomes first African-American woman admitted to the US bar
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The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
