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1st Womens right convention in NY
Held in Seneca NY -
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton form National Women Suffrage Association
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Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell form American Women Suffrage Association
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National Women Suffrage Association & American Women Suffrage Association combine to form the NAWSA
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National Association of Colored Women is formed
Brought together more than 100 African American women's clubs. -
National Women's Trade Union League is established
Established to advocate for imporved wages and working conditions for women -
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union
work toward the passage of a federal amendment to women the right to vote -
Margaret Sanger opened the first U.S birth control clinic
Brooklyn, NY. Sanger was arrested and the clinic was shut down 10 days later -
Federal Woman Suffrage amendment was passed by the House of Representatives & the Senate
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The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed
collected information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women