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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.