WOMEN
Red for contraceptive/ social rights
Blue for political rights
Green for economic rights
1866 – American Equal Rights Association set up
1869 – American Woman Suffrage Association set up, focused on male suffrage
National Women’s Suffrage Association, wanted constitutional amendment
1870 – 13% of unmarried women worked domestically or in factories.
Fifteenth Amendment, no inclusion of gender
1872 – American Equal Rights Association voted illegally in presidential election in protest
1873 – Women’s Crusade, mass movement of women demanding prohibition
Comstock laws – made sale of contraception illegal
1874 – Women’s Christian Temperance Union by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton
wanted temperance and female suffrage. By 1900 had 7,00 branches in 52 states.
1890 – American Woman Suffrage Association and National Women’s Suffrage
Association merged
1896 – National Association of Coloured Women – campaigned against racial and
gender discrimination. By 1915 had 50,000 members
Red for contraceptive/ social rights
Blue for political rights
Green for economic rights
1866 – American Equal Rights Association set up
1869 – American Woman Suffrage Association set up, focused on male suffrage
National Women’s Suffrage Association, wanted constitutional amendment
1870 – 13% of unmarried women worked domestically or in factories.
Fifteenth Amendment, no inclusion of gender
1872 – American Equal Rights Association voted illegally in presidential election in protest
1873 – Women’s Crusade, mass movement of women demanding prohibition
Comstock laws – made sale of contraception illegal
1874 – Women’s Christian Temperance Union by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton
wanted temperance and female suffrage. By 1900 had 7,00 branches in 52 states.
1890 – American Woman Suffrage Association and National Women’s Suffrage
Association merged
1896 – National Association of Coloured Women – campaigned against racial and
gender discrimination. By 1915 had 50,000 members
