Women's Suffrage Movement Timeline

Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony are arrested for trying to vote.

• 1872

• 1999

• 1873

• 1871

Congress passes the Voting Rights Act, removing any discriminatory barriers that kept many people of color from voting.

• 1970

• 1965

• 1950

• 1984

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton start the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA), and Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe start the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

• 1869

• 1949

• 1844

• 1622

The AWSA and the NWSA merge under the leadership of Susan B. Anthony.

• 1894

• 1874

• 1973

• 1977

Only land owning, white, Christian men, over the age of 21 could vote.

• 1972

• 7777

• 1776

• 1777

14th amendment gives African Americans citizenship.

• 1776

• 1772

• 1989

• 1868

Indian Citizenship act is passed giving Native Americans citizenship.

• 1726

• 1826

• 1924

• 1823

Women in Kuwait were granted the right to vote.

• 1999

• 2005

• 2000

• 2010

Seneca Falls Convention

• July 1848

• June 1920

• Sept. 1948

• 1966

15th amendment allows all men regardless of race to vote but not women.

• 1868

• 1870

• 1865

• 1863