“For women are "people" surely, and desire, as much as men, to say the least, to establish justice and to insure domestic tranquility; and, brothers, you will never insure domestic tranquility in the days to come unless you allow women to vote. . .”

[women] “pay taxes and bear equally with yourselves all the burdens of society; for they do not mean any longer to submit patiently and quietly to such injustice. . .”

. . . “the sooner men understand this and graciously submit to become the political equals of their mothers, wives, and daughters-aye, of their grandmothers, for that is my category, instead of their political masters, as they now are, the sooner will this precious domestic tranquility be insured.”

Isabella Beecher Hooker

1836

Sarah Grimké begins her speaking career as an abolitionist and a women's rights advocate. She is eventually silenced by male abolitionists who consider her public speaking a liability.

August 26, 1920

The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified. Its victory accomplished, the National American Woman Suffrage Association ceases to exist, but its organization becomes the nucleus of the League of Women Voters.

“The rights 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.”

19th Amendment to the United States Constitution

In 1923The Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination

on the basis of gender was first proposed.

It has never been ratified.