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Women's Advocacy in the White House
Abigail Adams was an outspoken women's advocate and the country's second First Lady. Adams played a double role as John Adams' wife and political adviser; Adams supported her husband in his career but never failed to express her convictions that women should have the same rights as men -
Declaration of women French revolution
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First women's rights convention
A two day held event that was ran by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott -
Elizabeth Cady Staton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to dramatize the denied citizenship claims of elite women during a period when the early republic's founding documents privileged white propertied male -
Ain't I a woman
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American Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association was formed by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
The National Woman Suffrage Association
The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -
Frederick Douglass signs petition for women's suffrage
Frederick Douglass, Jr.; daughter, Mrs. Nathan Sprague; and son-in-law, Nathan Sprague, all signed a petition to Congress for woman suffrage "...to prohibit the several States from Disfranchising United States Citizens on account of Sex." -
Mary Church Terrell
She was the first African American woman to earn a college degree -
NWSA #1
National American Woman Suffrage Association became the biggest women’s suffrage organization -
First Women State Legislators
The State of Colorado pioneered women’s participation in politics. Though the first attempts to establish women’s suffrage failed in 1877, Colorado became the second state to give women the right to vote in 1893. -
Ida B. Wells
She took part in the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote -
First Woman Senator
Rebecca Latimer Felton was sworn in as a Senator from Georgia. The 87-year-old Felton was appointed in a symbolic gesture to fill a vacancy, after the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson. She only served one day in the Senate. -
The Two Fridas
One of the Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings -
First woman to run for president
In 1964, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith declared her candidacy for the Republican nomination for president, becoming the first woman to actively seek the presidential nomination of a major political party. -
Testimony before the Senate
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Simone de Beauvoir
She helped launch the French Women's Liberation Movement in signing the Manifesto of the 343 for abortion rights -
Harvey Weinstein is my monster too
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The Gendered History of Human Computers
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Barbie movie
