Women Suffrage Timeline. Infographic created by Kimberly Simmons, Journalist. Accreditation given to History.com. Infographic created using Timetoast.

By Kdyounts

  • Seneca Falls.

    Participants at the inaugural women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls adopt the Declaration of Sentiments which calls for equality for women to include that women should seek the right to vote.

  • First state to grant women the right to vote.

    Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.

  • Suffragists Arrested for Voting in N.Y.

    Over a dozen women are arrested in Rochester, N.Y.

  • NAWSA is formed.

    The two sides of the women’s movement reunite.

  • Black Suffrage Group.

    Black suffragists form national group.

  • President Supports Suffrage.

    President Wilson Changes Position, Supports Suffrage.

  • House, Senate Pass Amendment, Ratification Effort Begins

    The Amendment is passed and the efforts begin. Eleven states—Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa and Missouri—vote to ratify by late July 1919.

  • 35 States Ratify, One More Needed

    Delaware’s Vote Against Ratification shocks Americans and Tennessee Provides Final Vote.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act allows all people to vote in the United States.

  • North Carolina Ratifies the 19th Amendent.

  • Mississippi Ratifies the 19th Amendment.

    Mississippi Ratifies the 19th Amendment and is the last State to Ratify.