The Good Fight:
Our
Women
Rebellious
1776
1869 1917
Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
found National Woman
Suffrage Association Jeanette Rankin of Montana
is elected to Congress as
a member of the House of
Representitives
Abigail Adams writes to
husband and Founding
Father John Adams,
“remember the ladies
and be more generous
and favorable to them
than your ancestors“
1851
Former slave,
Sojourner Truth,
delivers famous
speech “Ain’t I a
woman?” to the
Women’s Rights
Convention in
Ohio
1792
Mary Wollstonecraft
publishes A Vindication
of the Rights of Women
1916
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
held in New York. 68 wom-
en and 32 men sign the
Declaration of Sentiments,
which sparks decades of
activism
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Margaret Sanger opens
first birth control clinic
in Brooklyn, which is
deemed illegal