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6 unusual facts about Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States


Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States

1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only.

1872: Susan B. Anthony registers and votes in Rochester, New York, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives her that right.

1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, stating, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," is ratified by Tennessee on August 18th.

1918: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which eventually granted women suffrage, passes the U.S. House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate.

It is maintained until the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passes the U.S. Senate on June 4th.

1871: Victoria Woodhull speaks to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that women have the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but the committee does not agree.


Chung Sai Yat Po

These news pieces added to the American women’s suffrage movement.

The Ballad of Josie

She then incurs the annoyance of her male neighbors by farming sheep instead of cattle and setting up a women's suffrage movement.

The Most Famous Man in America

After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.

The Mother of Us All

It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States.

Winchester, Tennessee

Though a women's college, it offered a classical curriculum based upon what was being offered at the time by Amherst College, Brown University, and the University of Virginia.

Women's suffrage in the United States

On June 26, 1913, Illinois Governor Edward F. Dunne signed the bill in the presence of Trout, Booth and union labor leader Margaret Healy.


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