Women’s+Suffrage


 * 1896 - Ida B. Wells a black teacher, helped form the National Association of Colored Women which set up day-care centers to protect and educate black children.
 * 1899 - Florence Kelley helped found the National Consumers League. Which gave labels to "goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions" and urged women to buy them and avoid products that did not have these labels.
 * End of the 1890's - women in western states, such as Wyoming and Colorado, had won the right to vote.
 * 1900 - Carrie Chapman Catt became the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
 * 1903 - Oregon law capped women's workdays at ten hours.
 * 1917 - Alice Paul formed the National Women's Party which was the first group to march with picket signs outside the White House.
 * 1918 - Women win the right to vote in New York, Michigan, and Oklahoma.
 * 1919- Congress approved the nineteenth ammendment which stated that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.
 * 1921 - Margaret Sanger opened the American Birth Control League.
 * 1930 - Ida B. Wells ran for the Illonois state legislature,which made her one of the first black women to run for public office in the United States.