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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the women's rights movement when she, together with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while women, black and white, were denied those same rights. -
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Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was a prominent American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Having joined the women's rights movement in 1852, she dedicated her life to womens suffrage.
Ignoring opposition and abuse, Anthony traveled, lectured, and canvassed across the nation for the vote. She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and retain their earnings, and she advocated for women's labor organizations. In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women. -
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Harriet Tubman
Tubman believed in the equality of all people, black or white, male or female, which made her sympathetic to the women’s rights movement. Tubman’s role was not that of a leader but that of a strong supporter. As a woman who had fought for her own freedom and the freedom of others, Tubman set to work with her friends by touring and giving speeches about her own experiences as a female slave and as the liberator of hundreds born under the bondage of slavery. -
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Antoinette Browne Blackwell
Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream protestant minister in the United States -
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Victoria Woodhull
American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. In 1872, Woodhull was the first female candidate for President of the United States -
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920 -
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Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She is best known for her work in publicizing the Women's Rights Movement -
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Emma Goldman
Goldman advocated that birth control was essential to women's sexual and economic freedom. She worked as a nurse and midwife among poor immigrant workers on New York's Lower East Side. There she saw first-hand the suffering of poor women who, unable to support the children they already had, often resorted to dangerous, self-induced abortions. She began smuggling contraceptive devices into the United States, lecturing frequently on "the right of the child not to be born", and demanding freedom -
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Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
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Alice Paul
Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. -
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Ella Baker
Civil rights activist Ella Baker worked with the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. -
19th Amendment Ratified
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Angela Davis
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Voting Rights Act
landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting