Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
1876 York for trying to vote in the presidential election Susan B Anthony presents a Declaration of Rights for women at the Centennial Convention in Phil adelphia Susan B Anthony writes a women's suffrage amendment to the Constitution 1878 1883 Frances Willard founds the Woman's Christian 1890 Temperance Union The suffrage movement reunites to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago and launches the Settlement Movement 1893 1895 1896 Lucy Stone dies Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes the Woman's Bible A group of African American women which includes Harriet Tubman Mary Church Terrell and Ida B Wells Barnett found the National Associa tion of Colored Women 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw become leaders of the suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies Susan B Anthony dies 1902 1906 1913 Activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns leave the National American Woman Suffrage Association to organize the Congressional Union later the National Woman's Party Marchers are attacked as they march in a suffrage parade in Washington DC Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the nation's first woman to serve in the US House of Represen 1913 1916 tatives
1917 The United States enters World War I 1919 The 19th Amendment passes both the US House of Representatives and the Senate 1920 Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment and women's suffrage becomes the law of the land 1923 Alice Paul writes an Equal Rights Amendment to end discrimination based on gender which was never ratified
an Suffragists staged a tableau at the US Treasury Department steps during their monumental parade in Washington DC in 1913 Library of Congress LC USZ62 70382
Preface A Declaration for a New Nation We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal ARLY IN the new year of 1777 life was tense in revolutionary Baltimore as it was across the 13 new states The upstart Americans had launched a revolution against Great Britain and its monarch King George III The summer before Baltimore's citi zens had swarmed the streets to hear words of a thrilling document just written in Philadelphia It declared that all men were created equal that they had certain inalienable rights and that they were entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happi ness There was just one problem This Declaration of Independence was handwritten on parchment with a quill pen and ink Any printed copies were incom plete because they didn't show the signatures of those who had penned their names at the bottom of the page It was high time to put these radical words along with the names of the brave men who had signed it into the hands of people across the colonies The document needed a publisher to print
