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Women's Rights & Abolition

By forrestmusgrove

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    William Lloyd Garrison is born in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    William's father becomes unemployed.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Margaret Fuller born.
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    Margaret Fuller

    Tutored by father, guided as boys were for Harvard. Learned Latin, read Plutarch, Ovid, Shakespeare, Fielding, Cicero, Cervantes. Attended Cambridge Port Private Grammar School, studied Greek at Dr. Park’s Boston Lyceum, boarded at Miss Prescott’s Seminary, Groton, MA. Returned home, scheduled rigid self-education, avidly read classics. Moved to Dana mansion, Cambridge, MA.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    Garrison age 14, began to work as an apprentice compositor for Newburyport.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    William's mother died in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson born.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    Editor of National Philanthorpist in Boston.

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    Founded New England Anti-Slavery Society.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Father dies.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Met Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became influential friend and introduced her into circle of Transcendentalists, largely male ministers rebelling against traditional religion and defining new thought of Transcendentalism.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Higginson enters Harvard College when he is 13 years old.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Taught teenage girls at Greene Street School in Providence, RI and began to formulate specialized curricula for girls.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Thomas graduates.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Completed Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Fishkill, New York, first American book-length treatment advocating equality.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Became first woman foreign correspondent. She traveled Europe and covered conditions of poverty, coal miners, the common worker.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Higginson was chosen by the First Religious Society of Newburyport as its pastor.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Settled in Rome where Marchese Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a Roman nobleman, became her husband.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    He became active on behalf of women by signing the call for the first national women’s rights convention.

  • Margaret Fuller

    Margaret Fuller dies. She departed Italy on a merchant ship with Ossoli and her two year-old sonbound for America. On July 19 gale winds stormed and ship struck sand bar off shores of Fire Island, New York, broke apart, and sank to bottom of ocean.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    in 1854 he led a vigilante assault to free a fugitive slave from a federal courthouse, in the course of which a marshal was shot to death.

  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams born
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    Jane Addams

    Jane Addams attends Rockford Female Seminary

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    William Lloyd Garrison dies.

  • Lucy Burns

    Lucy Burns born in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Common Sense About Women published.

  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago.

  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams becomes the vice president of the National Women's Trade Union League.
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    Lucy Burns

    She studied at the University of Berlin in Germany.

  • Jane Addams

    Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work).

  • Lucy Burns

    Became an activist with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union.
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    Lucy Burns

    Worked as a suffrage organizer in Scotland.
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    Jane Addams

    1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association and 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers.

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    Thomas Wentworth Higginson dies.

  • Lucy Burns

    Returns to the United States.

  • Lucy Burns

    Returns to the United States.

  • Lucy Burns

    Founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.

  • Jane Addams

    Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman.

  • Lucy Burns

    Burns was a driving force behind the picketing of President Woodrow Wilson’s administration in Washington, D.C.

  • Lucy Burns

    Lucy was among those in the Occoquan Workhouse who instigated hunger strikes.
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    Jane Addams

    Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President.

  • Jane Addams

    1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams passes away in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois.

  • Lucy Burns

    Lucy Burns dies.