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Feb 26, 2019 · July 19-20, 1848: In the first women’s rights convention organized by women, the Seneca Falls Convention is held in New York, with 300 attendees, including organizers Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
Jan 20, 2017 · Timeline: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the fall of Roe v. Wade. By Susan Milligan Senior Politics Writer March 10, 2023, at...
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1840. 1848. Seneca Falls, New York, USA. Key moment. First women's rights convention. Indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregate a few hundred people at their nation’s first women’s rights convention in New York.
Feb 26, 2015 · The women's rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
Jun 17, 2022 · Women's Rights Timeline. View in National Archives Catalog. December 26, 1865. E. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone ask friends to send petitions for women's suffrage. This form letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone asks friends to send petitions for women's suffrage to their representatives in Congress.
Here is a list of significant events in the global movement for women’s rights: 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Doria Shafik catalyzed a women’s rights movement in Egypt when in 1951 she, alongside 1,500 women, stormed parliament demanding full political rights, pay equality and reforms to personal status laws.
