1866 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the American Equal Rights Association. 1867 Kansas holds one of the first state referendums on suffrage. 1868 Stanton and Anthony begin publishing the Revolution. 1868 The Fourteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution, defining a citizen as male. 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association to secure a federal amendment for voting rights. 1869 Lucy Stone forms the American Woman Suffrage Association to push for state by state recognition of woman’s right to vote. 1869 Wyoming Territory passes the first woman suffrage bill. 1869 John Stuart Mill publishes The Subjection of Women. 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution extends voting privileges to black men but continues to omit any reference to woman suffrage. 1870 Lucy Stone founds the Woman’s Journal to compete with the Revolution. 1871 Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis publishes A History of the National Woman’s Rights Movement. 1872 Victoria Woodhull runs for president of the United States. 1874 Fanny Wright’s daughter testifies against suffrage before Congress. 1879 Massachusetts allows women to vote in school elections. 1879 Frances Willard is elected president of WCTU and advocates suffrage as means of ‘‘protecting the home.’’ 1881 Julia Ward Howe founds Association for the Advancement of Women to fo- ster educational and professional opportunities. 1885 Matilda Joslyn Gage aids Elizabeth Cady Stanton in writing The Woman’s Bible, a gender-reversed interpretation of scripture. 1887 Anna Howard Shaw is hired by American Woman Suffrage Association as a national lecturer. 1889 Jane Addams opens Hull House. 1890 The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suf- frage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). 1892 Olympia Brown forms Federal Suffrage Association to push for constitu- tional amendment. 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes ‘‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’’ one of the first works of fiction classed as ‘‘feminist.’’ 1893 Colorado approves a bill to allow women to vote. 1896 The National Association of Colored Women is formed. 1900 Susan B. Anthony resigns as president of NAWSA, naming Carrie Chapman Catt as her successor. 1902 The last volume of the History of Woman Suffrage is published. x Timeline of Women’s Rights in the United States
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