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THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE TIMELINE
Do you know what REALLY happened?
ABIGAIL ADAMS'S LETTERS TO JOHN ADAMS
She: " We will foment a rebellion."
He: "We will fight the despotism of the petticoat."
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE TIMELINE
BOOK LIST
References and materials used in preparation of the Timeline.
THE 1848
DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS
The official commencement of the women's movement
at Seneca Falls, NY. THIS SITE IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTING
RIGHTS, IS IT.
Voting rights are not just about voting, are they.
THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
A comment on the the abolitionist movement
and its connection with woman suffrage.
Sojourner
Truth's Ain't I A Woman speech.
WHAT WAS THE E.R.A.
REALLY ABOUT?
U.S. Commission Report June 1981
WOMEN'S LIBRARY OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Primary Source Documents; Women of Achievement
FATHERLESS
AMERICA
The Childhoods of Historical Figures in American History
LIZNOTES:
Family Law in the United States
03-31 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
Event: 03-31-1776, Abigail Adams wrote her husband when he was
in Philadelphia helping plan the Declaration of Independence:
"Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and
favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power
into the hands of Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could...
If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined
to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in
which we have no voice, or Representation."
B. 03-31-1889, Muriel Hazel Wright, historian, writer, helped
organize the Choctaw Advisory Council, 1934, and fought for just recompense
for Native Americans following Oklahoma's statehood.
B.: 03-31-1895, Lizzie Miles, popular black singer in New Orleans
and Los Angeles in the 1920's and 30's, developed a style known as "gumbo
French" jazz.
B. 03-31-1914, Mildred Buchwalder Beck, director of the Child Study
Association of America. Her widowed mother took in foster children
to support her own children and Beck had to earn her own money for college.
B. 03-31-1929, Liz Claiborne, founder, president, CEO and chair as
well as fashion designer of Liz Claiborne, Inc., a billion-dollar corp.
Her mother taught her to sew and Liz says instilled ambition in her.
B. 03-31-1934, Shirley Jones, actor. After a very successful
stage career in such musicals as Oklahoma! which she brought to the screen
in 1955, she won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in Elmer
Gantry (1960). Best known to a generation for her TV work in The
Partridge Family.
Event: 03-31-1966, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare approves distribution of contraceptives and birth control information
under a number of federal programs.
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