Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
Anti-Slavery Society, founded 1787
World Anti-Slavery Society Convention, London,
1840
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Lucy Stone (1819-1893)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Civil War Amendments
• XIII (1865) outlaws slavery
• XIV (1868) due process and equal protection
• XV (1870) right to vote not abridged on
account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude
National Woman Suffrage Association (1869)
American Woman Suffrage Association (1870)
Suffragettes in Washington DC
Nineteenth Amendment (ratified August 18,
1920)
• “The right of citizens of
the United States to
vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the
United States or by any
State on account of
sex.”
• “Congress shall have
power to enforce this
article by appropriate
legislation.”
Voting rights in the US before the Nineteenth
Amendment
• Territory of Wyoming (1869)
• Colorado (1893)
• Utah and Idaho (1896)
• Washington state (1910)
• California (1911)
• Kansas, Oregon, Arizona (1912)
Suffragettes in London
Voting rights, Europe
• England 1918 (partial), 1928 (full)
• Germany 1919
• France and Italy after WW II
• Switzerland 1971