The Suffragettes

1848 - The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was passed at the Seneca Falls convention.

1866 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association.

1869 - The women's rights movement split into two factions: Stanton and Anthony formed the radical National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe formed the conservative American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The Wyoming territory was organized with woman suffrage, and in 1890, Wyoming was admitted to the Union with women's suffrage.

1874 - The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded.

1878 - A Woman Suffrage Amendment was first introduced in Congress, but not passed until 1919.

1890 - The NWSA and the AWSA were reunited as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1893 - Colorado adopted a state women's suffrage amendment.

1903 - In London, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, known for radical methods such as hunger strikes and defiant demonstrations, causing her arrest and imprisonment.

1911 - The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) ws organized, led by Mrs. Arthur Dodge.

1912 - Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party became the first national political party to adopt a women's suffrage plank.

1913 March

1913 - Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union that became the National Women's Party in 1916. On March 3, 1913, they organized the march of 8000 suffragettes in DC with Inez Milholland at the front on a white horse.

1913 - On June 4, British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison died when she threw herself in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in London.

1913 - In September, Scotland Yard in London began systematic photographic surveillance of suffragettes arrested and brought to Holloway Prison.

1916 - NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt planned the coordinated suffrage victory at the Atlantic City convention.

1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected to Congress.

1920 - On August 26, the 19th Amendment was ratified.

Links:

• chronology text from Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 from American Memory
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 from Binghamton
• By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 from American Memory
• A history of video surveillance in England
• Iron Jawed Angels (2004 HBO) portrayed the March 3, 1913 march in DC.
• Alice Paul Memorial March in 1977
• Death of Suffragette at Epsom Derby, 1913 small video at Firstworldwar.com

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