History of Feminism
1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history
1851: Sojourner Truth delivers speech: "Ain't I a Woman."
1892: Anna Julia Cooper publishes A Voice from the South by a Black Woman from the South (1892)—- perhaps the first African American feminist theorist.
Late 1800s – 1930s: Ida B. Wells leads an anti-lynching crusade against the illegal and unjustified lynching of African Americans around the nation – she is also a founder of the NAACP and a suffragist, especially organizing African-American women in the Chicago area.
1895: National Federation of Afro-American Women & the National League of Colored Women are organized
1896: The two organizations above united to form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) with Mary
Church Terrell as president.
(Picture to the left is NACW)
1896: Suffragists began to emphasize the special qualities women would bring to politics; they argued that since women were better morally and spiritually than men, they would vote for peace and social justice and help the world.
1851: Sojourner Truth delivers speech: "Ain't I a Woman."
1892: Anna Julia Cooper publishes A Voice from the South by a Black Woman from the South (1892)—- perhaps the first African American feminist theorist.
Late 1800s – 1930s: Ida B. Wells leads an anti-lynching crusade against the illegal and unjustified lynching of African Americans around the nation – she is also a founder of the NAACP and a suffragist, especially organizing African-American women in the Chicago area.
1895: National Federation of Afro-American Women & the National League of Colored Women are organized
1896: The two organizations above united to form the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) with Mary
Church Terrell as president.
(Picture to the left is NACW)
1896: Suffragists began to emphasize the special qualities women would bring to politics; they argued that since women were better morally and spiritually than men, they would vote for peace and social justice and help the world.
Early 1900's
After 1900: African-American women's suffrage clubs formed all over the nation
1907: Harriet Stanton Blatch formed the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (effort to unite career and working women)
1910: Suffrage parades of women demanding suffrage around the country
1912-1913: Radical young women first used the term "feminist"
1919: African-American women's club denied admission to NAWSA
1907: Harriet Stanton Blatch formed the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (effort to unite career and working women)
1910: Suffrage parades of women demanding suffrage around the country
1912-1913: Radical young women first used the term "feminist"
1919: African-American women's club denied admission to NAWSA
Early-Mid 1900s
1916: Alice Paul & Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union (later the National Woman's Party) on the British model of a militant strategy to demand suffrage
1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
1917: National Woman's Party began to systematically picket the White House, demanding to know what President Wilson would do for Woman's Suffrage -- many of these women were arrested and jailed. When they went on hunger strikes the government responded by force feeding them.
Jan. 10, 1918: Jeannette Rankin, representative from Montana and only woman member of Congress, introduced the Anthony amendment (give women right to vote)
August 26, 1920: the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the vote 72 years, one month and one week since Seneca Falls (picture to the left shows women celebrating the 19th Amendment)
1924: The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in the U.S. Congress (never ratified)
1935: Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women
*Note: Their Eyes Were Watching God was written in 1937
1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY
1917: National Woman's Party began to systematically picket the White House, demanding to know what President Wilson would do for Woman's Suffrage -- many of these women were arrested and jailed. When they went on hunger strikes the government responded by force feeding them.
Jan. 10, 1918: Jeannette Rankin, representative from Montana and only woman member of Congress, introduced the Anthony amendment (give women right to vote)
August 26, 1920: the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the vote 72 years, one month and one week since Seneca Falls (picture to the left shows women celebrating the 19th Amendment)
1924: The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in the U.S. Congress (never ratified)
1935: Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women
*Note: Their Eyes Were Watching God was written in 1937