Women's Suffrage

By CrystalLDavis912
  • 1928 BCE

    Degrees earned after the movement

    Degrees earned after the movement
    Alice Paul earned three law degrees from University of Pennsylvania.
  • 1919 BCE

    Chicago Riot

    Chicago Riot
    On July 27th, 1919, the Chicago Race Riot happened. An African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans, concentrated on the South Side neighborhood surrounding the stockyards, many people died.
  • 1919 BCE

    RED SUMMER

    RED SUMMER
    The “RED SUMMER” of 1919 marked the culmination of steadily growing tensions surrounding the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North that took place during World War I.
  • 1917 BCE

    Lucy Burns

    Lucy Burns
    Suffrage leader Lucy Burns (1879-1966) was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, probably in November 1917, after she and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women the right to vote.
  • 1890 BCE

    NAWSA Campaigns

    NAWSA Campaigns
    The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.
    http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1865/a/NAWSA.htm
  • 1885 BCE

    Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    Alice Paul was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman-suffrage movement. Born in 1885 to a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey, Paul was well-educated–she earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania–and determined to win the vote by any means necessary.
    http://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/
  • 1878 BCE

    Amendment

    Amendment
    The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent
    to the states for ratification.
  • 1869 BCE

    Association

    Association
    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
    http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/stanton/aa_stanton_friends_1.html
  • 1861 BCE

    Voting Rights to Men

    The U.S. Civil War caused the movement to come to a halt. At that time efforts were made in favor of granting citizenship and voting rights to men.
  • 1851 BCE

    Fashion during Women's Movement

    Fashion during Women's Movement
    Elizabeth Smith Miller debuted a knee-length skirt with full Turkish-style pantaloons gathered at the ankle.
  • 1850 BCE

    Susan and Elzabeth

    Susan and Elzabeth
    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton met in 1850 were they became life long friends where they published a paper called the Revolution from January 8, 1968 to February 17, 1970. www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/biography.html
  • 1850 BCE

    Convention

    Convention
    The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Mass., attracting more than 1,000 participants.
    https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/the-first-womens-rights-convention.htm
  • 1848 BCE

    Lucretia and Elizabeth's Conference

    Lucretia and Elizabeth's Conference
    A conference at Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton took up the issue of Women's Rights and planted the seeds of the suffrage movement in the US.
    http://www.historynet.com/seneca-falls-convention
  • 1847 BCE

    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    In 1847, Lincoln took his seat in the United States House of Representatives after serving a single two year term.
  • 1821 BCE

    Rights to Vote

    Rights to Vote
    NewYork gave freed black the right to vote.
    http://ronhayduk.com/immigrant-voting/around-the-us/state-histories/new-york-history/
  • 1807 BCE

    Slave Trade

    Slave Trade
    Slave trade in Great Britain was abolished.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-abolishes-the-african-slave-trade
  • 1801 BCE

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States.
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-jefferson-is-elected
  • 1790 BCE

    White's ONLY

    White's ONLY
    Only white male adult property-owners​ have the right to vote.

  • NACWC

    NACWC
    The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs. Leaders in the black women's club movement included Mrs. Mary Church Terrell (President), Mrs. Fanny Jackson Coppin (First Vice President), Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Second Vice President), Mrs. F. E. W. Harper (Third Vice President) http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/national-association-colored-womens

  • Voting Right Passed

    Voting Right Passed
    Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, the right for women to vote.