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.

1872Susan 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.

1876-1879Belva 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)

(William Merritt Chase)

1876

Labor movement urges banning of employment of children. (The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 )

1878A 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)

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

(William Merritt Chase)

1880The 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)

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

1884 Belva Lockwood runs for president, earning over 4,000 votes.

1890The 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)

1891A 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) )

1895After 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.

1896The 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)

1903The 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)

1904Helen 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)

(William Merritt Chase)

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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 )

1908The first Model T is introduced by Henry Ford.

1912Theodore 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)

“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)

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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)

(Harriet Beecher Stowe)

(Kate Chopin)

(Sarah Orne Jewett)

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