Did You Know?
That in December of 1869,The territory of Wyoming passed the first women’s suffrage law?
The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory.
That in 1893 Colorado was the first state to adopt an amendment granting women
the right to vote? Utah and Idaho follow suit in 1896, Washington State in 1910, California in
1911, Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona in 1912, Alaska and Illinois in 1913, Montana and Nevada in 1914, New York in 1917; Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma in 1918.
That in 1896 The National Association of Colored Women was formed, bringing together more than 100 black women’s clubs? Leaders in the black women’s club movement including: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Church Terrell, and Anna Julia Cooper.
That in 1903 The National Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) was established to advocate for improved wages and working conditions for women?
That in 1913 Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union to work toward the passage of a federal amendment to give women the vote? The group is later renamed the National Women’s Party. Members picket the White House and practice other forms of civil disobedience.
That in 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.?
Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in New York City in 1923.
That in 1919 The federal woman suffrage amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate? It is then sent to the states for ratification.
That in 1920 The Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor was formed to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women?
That on Aug. 26, 1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby?
