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Susan B. Anthony
Teacher Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers. -
Convention
call to a woman's rights convention appeared in a Seneca County, New York, newspaper. -
Seneca Falls
Woman's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, issuing the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments -
Womens Rights Convention
First National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. -
Negroes rights
Sojourner Truth defends woman's rights and "Negroes' rights" at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Women Suffrage
New England Woman Suffrage Association founded to focus on woman suffrage; dissolves in a split in just another year. 15th Amendment ratified, adding the word "male" to the Constitution for the first time. January 8: first issue of The Revolution appeared. -
Women Suffrage
American Equal Rights Association splits. National Woman Suffrage Association founded primarily by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. November: American Woman Suffrage Association founded in Cleveland, created primarily by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Julia Ward Howe. December 10: the new Wyoming territory includes woman suffrage. -
Voting
Susan B. Anthony was tried for "illegally" voting. -
Women Suffrage
The United States Senate voted on woman suffrage for the first time -- and also for the last time in 25 years. -
Amendment
Colorado passed by referendum an amendment to their state constitution, giving women the right to vote. Colorado was the first to amend its constitution to grant woman suffrage. Lucy Stone died.