Ferry.ġ879 Belva Lockwood becomes the first woman lawyer admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.ġ880 November 11: Lucretia Mott dies. When the request to present the Declaration is denied, Anthony and four other women charge the speakers’ rostrum and thrust the document into the hands of Vice-President Thomas W. Happersett, the Supreme Court decides that citizenship does not give women the right to vote and that women’s political rights are under the jurisdiction of each individual state.ġ876 Stanton writes a Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States to be read at the centennial celebration in Philadelphia. Several days later she is arrested.ġ873 At Anthony’s trial the judge does not allow her to testify on her own behalf, dismisses the jury, rules her guilty, and fines her $100. Anthony registers and votes contending that the 14th amendment gives her that right. The Committee issues a negative report.ġ872 In Rochester, NY, Susan B. Anthony and Stanton bitterly oppose the amendment, which for the first time explicitly restricts voting rights to “males.” Many of their former allies in the abolitionist movement, including Lucy Stone, support the amendment.ġ871 Victoria Woodhull addresses the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing that women have the right to vote under the 14th amendment. The amendment grants suffrage to former male African-American slaves, but not to women.
First issue of the Woman’s Journal is published with Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Blackwell as editors. Wyoming Territory grants suffrage to women.ġ870 Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. American Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Henry Ward Beecher as president. US Suffrage Movement Timeline, 1869 to presentġ869 National Woman Suffrage Association is founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president.
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