![]() Carrie Chapman Catt is elected president of the NAWSA. It merges in 1917 with the Woman’s Party to become the National Woman’s Party.ġ915 Suffrage referendum in New York State is defeated. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Women of Finland are enfranchised.ġ907 Harriet Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founds the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later called the Women’s Political Union.ġ908 March 8: International Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time.ġ910 The Women’s Political Union holds its first suffrage parade in New York City.ġ911 National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is founded.ġ912 Suffrage referendums are passed in Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon.ġ913 Alice Paul organizes a suffrage parade in Washington, DC, the day of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration.ġ914 Montana and Nevada grant voting rights to women. Women of Australia are enfranchised.ġ903 Carrie Chapman Catt resigns as president of the NAWSA and Anna Howard Shaw becomes president.ġ906 March 13: Susan B. ![]() The NAWSA censures the work.ġ900 Anthony resigns as president of the NAWSA and is succeeded by Carrie Chapman Catt.ġ902 October 26: Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies. Anthony becomes president of the NAWSA.ġ895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes The Woman’s Bible, a critical examination of the Bible’s teaching about women. New Zealand is the first nation to give women suffrage.ġ892 Susan B. By 1900 women also have full suffrage in Utah, Colorado and Idaho. Wyoming joins the union as the first state with voting rights for women. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are published.ġ888 The International Council for Women is founded and holds its first meeting in Washington, DC.ġ890 After several years of negotiations, the NWSA and the AWSA merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. New York state grants school suffrage to women.ġ882 The House of Representatives and the Senate appoint Select Committees on Woman Suffrage.ġ887 The first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, edited by Susan B. Ferry.ġ879 Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman lawyer admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.ġ880 November 11: Lucretia Mott dies. When the request to present the Declaration is denied, Anthony and four other women charge the speakers’ rostrum and thrust the document into the hands of Vice-President Thomas W. Happersett, the Supreme Court decides that citizenship does not give women the right to vote and that women’s political rights are under the jurisdiction of each individual state.ġ876 Stanton writes a Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States to be read at the centennial celebration in Philadelphia. Several days later she is arrested.ġ873 At Anthony’s trial the judge does not allow her to testify on her own behalf, dismisses the jury, rules her guilty, and fines her $100. Anthony registers and votes contending that the 14th amendment gives her that right. The Committee issues a negative report.ġ872 In Rochester, NY, Susan B. Anthony and Stanton bitterly oppose the amendment, which for the first time explicitly restricts voting rights to “males.” Many of their former allies in the abolitionist movement, including Lucy Stone, support the amendment.ġ871 Victoria Woodhull addresses the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing that women have the right to vote under the 14th amendment. The amendment grants suffrage to former male African-American slaves, but not to women. First issue of the Woman’s Journal is published with Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell as editors. Wyoming Territory grants suffrage to women.ġ870 Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. American Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Henry Ward Beecher as president. US Suffrage Movement Timeline, 1869 to presentġ869 National Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president.
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