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1700s
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1773
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Phyllis Wheatley, first African-American poet in America,
bought from slave ship as a young child
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1775
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Thomas Paine proposes
civil and political rights for women in Pennsylvania Magazine
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1777
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Abigail Adams, wife
of President John Adams, writes that women "will not hold ourselves
bound by any laws in which we have no voice"
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1791
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French
feminist Olympe de Gouges issues Declaration of the Rights of Women and of
the Citizen
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1792
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English
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft writes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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1793
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Ex-slave Katy Ferguson establishes a school for poor children
of all races in New York
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1800-1850
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1819
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Emma Hart
Willard (1787-1870) writes the classic appeal An Address to the Public:
Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan
for Improving Female Education; though unsuccessful, it defines the issue of
women's education
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1820
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Susan B. Anthony born
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1824
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Teacher
Sophia B. Packard opens a college for African-Americans in Georgia
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1830
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Radical labor organizer
"Mother" (Mary) Jones born
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1833
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Oberlin is first
U.S. coeducational college
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1846
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Catharine Beecher publishes An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
with Reference to the Duty of American Women to their Country
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1848
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Seneca
Falls conference on women’s rights is led by American feminists Lucretia Mott
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; not a single woman of color is present, though
Frederick Douglass addresses conference
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1850
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Clara Barton founds one of
New Jersey’s first “free,” or public, schools
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1850-1900
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1851
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Sojourner
Truth delivers an unplanned fiery address (now known as “Ain’t I a Woman”) at
the Women’s Rights Conference in Akron, Ohio
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1860
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First English‑language
kindergarten established in United States
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1869
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National Woman Suffrage Association is founded by Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony
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1869
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Female
lawyers are licensed in United States
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1877
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Helen Magill
White (1853–1944) earns a Ph.D. in Greek from Boston University, the first
woman to receive a Ph.D. from an American University
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1878
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U.S.
constitutional amendment to grant full voting rights to women is introduced
for the first time in Congress and every year thereafter until its passage in
1920
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1900-1920
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1903
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American
educator Celestia Susannah Parish (1853–1918) founds and becomes first
president of the Southern Association of College Women
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1904
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Mary
McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) founds a school for black girls in Daytona Beach,
Florida, which eventually becomes Bethune‑Cookman College
See also: Some
of My Best Friends are Negro
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1904
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Susan
B. Anthony cofounds the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and is made
president of the International Leadership Conference in Berlin
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1915
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Jane
Addams and Carrie Chapman Catt found Women’s Peace Party
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1916
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Margaret Sanger forms New York Birth Control League
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1920
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Nineteenth
Amendment is passed, giving women in the United States the right to vote
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