1872

Susan B. Anthony is arrested and

brought to trial in Rochester, New York,
for attempting to vote for Ulysses S.
Grant in the presidential election. At the
same time, Sojourner Truth appears at
a polling booth in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, demanding a ballot; she is
turned away.
(William Merritt Chase)

1876-1879
Belva Ann Lockwood , a lawyer, is denied permission to practice before
the Supreme Court. In 1879, after three years of pushing legislation,
women are granted permission to practice in court, with Lockwood
becoming the first. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
1876
Labor movement urges banning of employment of
children. (The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 )
1878
A Woman Suffrage Amendment is introduced, but
does not pass, in the United States Congress. (One
Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)

(By Popular Demand: Votes for Women’s Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920)

 1879
Thomas
Edison invents
the light bulb.
(One Hundred Years Toward
Suffrage: An Overview)

(William Merritt Chase)

 (Blue Cloud Abbey Native American
Photograph Collection), (Regional
Realism. Authors: Charles Alexander
Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939))

1880
The Plains Indians are in reservations, and only 1,000 buffalo
remain of the millions that once populated the grasslands.
A railroad trip from San Francisco to New York which once
required six months of grueling travel, now requires a few days.
(Timeline: Transcontinental Railroad)
1884
Belva Lockwood runs for president,
earning over 4,000 votes.

1890
The National American Woman
Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under
the leadership of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is formed through a merger of
the NWSA and the AWSA. (One
Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An
Overview)

1891
A nationwide anti-lynching campaign
after the murder of three black
businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee
is launched by Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

(Regional Realism. Authors: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) )

1895
After The Woman's Bible is published by Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
the NAWSA’s conservative suffragists consider her to be too
radical with potential to damage the suffrage campaign.

1896
The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) is formed.
(One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)

(By Popular Demand: Votes for Women’s Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920)

1903
The Women's Trade Union
League of New York is
formed, eventually becoming
the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union.

The first airplane flight is

made by Orville and Wilbur
Wright. (One Hundred Years
Toward Suffrage: An Overview)

1904
Helen Keller, a deaf and blind
woman, graduates from
Radcliffe College. (Women of
the Century: 1900s. )

(Jacob Riis)
The relationship between a lady and her personal maid was
often very intimate, yet socially they were a world apart.”
(Victorianweb.org)
Click

(William Merritt Chase)

1904
The National Child Labor Committee forms. It is not until 1938
that federal law preventing the labor of children under the age
of 14 goes into effect. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
(The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 )
1908
The first Model T is introduced by Henry Ford.

1912
Theodore Roosevelt’s political party adopts
women’s suffrage. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An
Overview)
(By Popular Demand: Votes for Women’s Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920)
Click

“A young lady was only worth as much as her chastity and appearance of
complete innocence, for women were time bombs just waiting to be set
off. Once led astray, she was the fallen woman, and nothing could
reconcile that till she died.” (Victorianweb.org)
(William Merritt Chase)
The following year, 1913, sees women’s suffrage move into hunger
strikes, picketing of the White House, and parades as women continue
their public outcry for women’s suffrage. The 19th Amendment providing
women the right to vote is passed in 1920. (By Popular Demand: Votes for
Women’s Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920)
(Kate Chopin)
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

(Kate Chopin)

(Sarah Orne Jewett)

Click each photo for more on these authors

(Harriet Beecher Stowe)
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