Timeline
During Her Life:
1852: Gave her first public speech at the National Women’s Rights Convention.
1852: Established the Women’s New York State Temperance Society
1853: Not allowed to speak at the World’s Temperance Convention
1856: Began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
1866: Formed the American Equal Rights Association
1868: The 14th Amendment gives equal protection and voting rights to all males
1869: Founded the National Woman Suffrage Association
1869: Produced the newspaper The Revolution
1869: Organizes the first Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C.
1872: Voted illegally in the presidential election
1881: Publishes the History of Woman Suffrage
1892-1900: President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
1898: Establishes a press bureau to feed articles on woman suffrage to the press
1905: Meets with President Theodore Roosevelt about submitting a suffrage amendment to the Constitution
1906: Gives her “Failure is Impossible” speech
After Her Death:
1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution is passed, granting the right
to vote to all U.S. women over 21.
1921: A monument of Anthony, Stanton,
and Mott was unveiled in the Rotunda.
1979: Her portrait was placed by the
U.S. Treasury Department on one dollar
coins, making her the first woman to be
so honored.
The National Women’s Party in placing a wreath
on the monument of Susa n B. Anthony.
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