Timeline of Women's Rights
Vistas English III A 2014
July 14, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott meet and origanized a women's convention.
July 19-20, 1848
The Seneca Falls wrote a document based on the Declaration Of Independence saying that women are equal members of society.
July 19-20 1848
The Seneca Falls Convention was the beginning of the movement of the Women's Sufferage in the United States.
1873
Susan B. Anthony was convicted of “unlawful voting” and tried on June 17-18, 1873.
1963
The equal pay act becomes federal law says, employers must give equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties regardless of the race, color, religion, national orgin or sex of the worker.
1973
The supreme court establishes Abortion Right that allows a woman to choose whether to have an abortion or carry her pregnancy to term.