Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
In memory of my mother Charlotte Johnson Logan and my grandmothers
A Time Line for Women’s Suffrage July The Declaration of Independence is signed in Phil adelphia
1776 Jan Mary Katherine Goddard prints the first full copy of the Declaration uary 1777 1836 Sarah Grimke speaks publicly against slavery 1837 Lucretia Mott speaks publicly against slavery 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are turned away as delegates to the World Anti Slavery Convention in London 1843 Lucy Stone enters Oberlin College and is among its first women students 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Smith Miller and two others organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls New York Stanton and Elizabeth McClintock write the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad 1850 Amelia Bloomer pushes for dress reform by wear ing bloomers 1851 Sojourner Truth makes her Ain't I a Woman speech before a women's rights meeting in Ohio 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin 1861 Suffragists set aside their work to aid the North 1865 during the Civil War 1868 The 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitu 1871 tion give black males citizenship and the vote women's rights are ignored 1869 The women's suffrage movement divides over polit ical differences creating the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association 1872 Susan B Anthony stands trial in Rochester New
