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The Declaration Of Independence
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Olympe De Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This is Elizabeth, she was an American leader in the women's rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first concerted demand for women's suffrage in the United States. She learned the discriminatory laws under which women lived and determined to win equal rights for her sex. When she attended the World's Anti Slavery convention in London she was outraged with the denial of official recognition to several women because of their sex. -
Truth "Aint I a Woman"
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Formation of the American Equal Rights Assoctiation
Their mission for this association was to promote equal rights with emphasis on gaining the right to vote for women. This organization worked on securing the rights to all American citizens especially the right of suffrage irrespective of race, color, or sex. During the 11th National Woman's Rights Convention the AERA met its first test in 1867. Elizabeth and Susan were angry that the 15th amendment ignored women's rights in favor of blacks and urged the AERA to support the 16th amendment. -
Womens Sufferage Parade
Seneca Falls Convention in upstate New York (1848) and ended with the adoption of the amendment on August 26th, 1920. Women suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve the change that guarantees women the right to vote. Their main goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, and a married woman's right to her own property and wages/ custody over children and control over her own body. -
Jeannette Rankin
This is Jeannette, she was the first woman member of the US Congress and was a feminist and a lifetime pacifist and crusader for social and electoral reform. In 1914, she became legislative secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and in that same year she led a successful campaign for woman suffrage in her native Montana. In office by 1916 she introduced the first bill that would have allowed women citizenship independent of their husbands etc. -
Woman's Suffrage Amendment is introduced
The Women's Suffrage Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878 but 41 years later on June 4th, 1919 Congress approved the women's suffrage amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. -
The 19th amendment was adopted
The 19th Amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Beginning in the mid 19th century several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve radical change of the Constitution. Between 1878, the amendment was first introduced in Congress and by 1916, almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united to make the constitutional amendment. -
Margaret Sanger
This is Margaret, she was the founder of the birth control movement in the US and a international leader in the field. She practiced nursing on the Lower East Side of New York where she witnessed the relationships between poverty, uncontrolled fertility, high rates of infant and maternal mortality and deaths from illegal abortions. In 1912 she gave up nursing to devote herself to the cause of birth control. -
Pauli Murray
This is Pauli, she became one of the first African - American woman ordained as an Episcopal Priest, and received an honorary degree from the Yale Divinity School in 1979. Murray established the legal framework for advancing the civil rights movements and also played a important role in several social and legal organizations including the National Organization of Women, which she co-founded in 1966 and wrote about her experiences of black womanhood. -
Shirley Chisholm
This is Shirley, she was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress. She was active with community and political groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and she also represented Brooklyn district in the New York legislature. By 1968 she was elected to the US House of Representatives defeating the civil rights leader James Farmer. She quickly became known as a strong liberal and later won 152 delegates. -
Steinem "Testimony before the Senate"
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Shelby County v. Holder
This case was a seminal voting rights case that protected the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Holder was a landmark US Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by eliminating critical protections from discrimination. The outcome of this Supreme Court Decision was that coverage formulas are unconstitutional by changes to state voting laws can still be reviewed by Congress (Shelby County wins) ! -
Hayek "Harvey Weinstein is my Monster too"
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The True Story of Mrs. America
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Ferrera "Barbie"
