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United States Constitution ratified
The US made the terms “persons,” “people” and “electors” are used, allowing the interpretation of those beings to include men and women. -
Mississippi gives women their rights
The first state grants women the right to hold property in their own name, with their husbands’ permission. -
Declaration of Sentiments
At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society. -
Salved women's right
In Missouri v. Celia, a Slave, a Black woman is declared to be property without a right to defend herself against a master’s act of rape -
National Labor Union
One of the nation’s first organized labor advocacy groups, pushes for equal pay for equal work, the concept that a woman must be
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Racial Equality Issue Splits Two Suffrage Associations
Disagreements over the 13th, 14th and 15th
Amendments and the relationship between
women’s suffrage and the movement for
racial equality divide the women’s rights
movement between two organizations: the
National Woman Suffrage Association and
the American Woman Suffrage Association. -
Territory of Wyoming Gives Women the Right to Vote
The first woman suffrage law in the U.S. is passed in the territory of Wyoming. -
First Woman Nominated for President
Nominated by the Equal
Rights Party, Victoria
Chaflin Woodhull is the
first woman to run for
president of the United
States. But neither she nor
any other woman is allowed
to vote. -
United States law
Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875): The U.S. Supreme Court declares that women have no right to vote and than the term "persons" was only used for a certain category of people (men) excluding women as non voting citizens. -
Women Electing
women were granted the right to vote in all elections. -
National Association of Colored Women Organized
More than 100 African American women United to form an organization to call for justice,raise projects that benefit women and children, and stop racial violence and descrimination. -
York’s Married Women’s Property Act
New York’s Married Women’s Property Act (1848), granted married women the right to own property. -
Women’s Trade Union League Is Established
This national labor group is created to
unionize working women and advocate for
improved wages and working conditions
for women. Its leaders will go on to form
the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’
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10 hours work for women
Muller v State of Oregon, 208 U.S. 412 (1908): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Oregon’s 10-hour workday for women. The win is a two-edged sword: the protective legislation implies that women are physically weak. -
NY law about women patients
New York v. Sanger, 222 NY 192, 118 N.E. 637 Margaret Sanger wins her suit in New York to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes. -
Nineteenth Amendment
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.”
