Welcome to Road to the Vote: an interactive and immersive timeline of women's history in America from before the American Revolution to after the passage of the 19th Amendment.;xNLx;;xNLx;Navigate the timeline by dragging the grey box at the bottom of the screen to the colorful dots along the bottom. Click "more" to read about remarkable women, watch videos, find primary source documents, and listen to the women's ideas in their own words.
The common law of coverture limits women's rights and autonomy in the early republic.
A prominent Philadelphia Quaker petitions the new government to free her imprisoned husband and others.
Prominent New Jersey woman wonders if the public will scorn female writers.
An enslaved woman becomes the first African American poet in America to publish.
In a blink and you’ll miss it moment, Lin-Manuel Miranda calls this writer a “genius” in Hamilton: An American Musical.
Abigail Adams requests her husband, John, to include women in the new republic.
A loophole in the New Jersey constitution allowed women and African Americans to vote years before the 19th and 15th amendments.
Judith Sargent Murray declares that the intellects of men and women are equal.
An early feminist treatise is published which calls for treating women as equal to men.
She was nicknamed "The Lioness" for her ardent support of abolition and suffrage.
A young student publicly demands education equality for women at her own graduation ceremony.
Her powerful spoken-word poem "Ain't I a Woman" reverberates even today.
Prolific author who supported abolition, women's rights, and Native American rights.
One of the first female activists to identify the lack of property rights for women as a major obstacle to equality.
The godmother of the Seneca Falls Convention and author of the Declaration of Sentiments.
After being wrongly institutionalized, EPW Packard became an advocate for the mentally ill.
This legendary leader committed her life to abolition and women’s rights, never sacrificing one for the other.
Her legacy as a suffrage icon continues, though her relationships with women remain hidden.
The Underground Railroad’s most famous “conductor": she sought liberty on her own terms.
The first Black female newspaper publisher in all of North America, she used her platform to speak about abolition and education.
Godey's Lady's Book was a fashion magazine aimed at women that promoted women's education and employment.
The first woman to run for president, she declared that women should live without social restriction.
Leaders at this landmark event declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal…”
More than 900 people attended this conference which was called an "insurrection in petticoats."
Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel of slavery in the south brings the issues of enslavement and abolition into public view.
"The Mother of Black Feminism," she became a leading figure in American Education.
She fought for women's rights in the U.S. and abroad while living life with her companion Mary Garret Hay.
Most formal organizing efforts in pursuit of suffrage are suspended. Many suffragists throw themselves into the War effort.
An advocate for Civil Rights; she brought attention to lynchings in America. *Trigger warning: racial and gendered violence.*
Psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins known for being the first female president of the American Psychological Association.
A Native American rights activist who proudly argued against cultural assimilation.
Journalist, inventor, and industrialist best known for her hard-hitting expose of abuse at Blackwell's Island mental hospital.
Orator, educator, activist, suffragist. She became an exemplar of Black female leadership.
This newspaper was published by suffragist icons Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
172 women in Vineland, New Jersey brought their own ballot box to the polls in protest.
Socially conservative suffragists create this organization in order to change voting legislation in individual states.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the NWSA in opposition to the passage of the 15th Amendment.
Wyoming grants suffrage, but many women were still disenfranchised.
An organization which drew from the militant tactics of Suffragettes in the UK.
Founded by Lucy Stone, this publication became the voice of the movement.
Prominent women organize to resist voting rights for women.
Susan B. Anthony casts her vote in the presidential election, resulting in her arrest and a trial.
Famed orator attempts to vote in the presidential election, but is turned away.
This suffragist and activist shaped the Harlem Renaissance.
One of the most influential figures in the fight for Native American rights.
Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joselyn Gage interrupt an event at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to present their declaration.
A New Mexico activist becomes the godmother of her community and encourages Mexican Americans to vote.
Militant suffragist who fought for the 19th amendment and later penned the Equal Rights Amendment.
The first Chinese American to become a physician, a tireless advocate for equal voting rights, and an LGBTQ icon.
As a teenager she led a suffrage parade on horseback.
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