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United States Constitution ratified
The terms “persons,” “people” and “electors” are used, allowing the interpretation of those beings to include men and women. -
Hetty Green was born
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The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name
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Reminisces of My Life in Camp
By Susie King Taylor -
Aint I a Woman?
By Sojourner Truth -
Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott -
Bradwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130:
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman (Myra Colby Bradwell) from practicing law. -
Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born
New York -
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote.
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The National Association of Colored Women is formed
bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs. -
Amelia Earhart was born
Kansas -
Every state has passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act
granting married women some control over their property and earnings. -
Eleanor Roosevelt leaves school to debut
New York City -
Eleanor Roosevelt calls this "the beginning of my independence"
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Hetty Green dies
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Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic -
Margaret Sanger wins her suit in New York
to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes. -
The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed
to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women. -
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified
It declares: “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.” -
Marian Anderson was born