Kerrie Logan Hollihan - Rightfully Ours. How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities

Copyright 2012 by Kerrie Logan Hollihan
All rights reserved
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610

ISBN 978-1-883052-89-8

Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk

Front cover photographs: (full-bleed image) Jessie Stubbs (left) and General Rosalie Jones (right), who led womens suffrage hikes to Albany, New York, and Washington, DC | Library of Congress LC-B2-2461-14; (inset, from left to right) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot | Library of Congress LC-USZ62-48965; Womens League officers from Newport, Rhode Island | Library of Congress LC-USZ62-51555; women marching with signs, 1917 | Library of Congress LC-H261-7104; Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Library of Congress mnwp 159001; Lucy Burns | Library of Congress mnwp 274009 Back cover photographs (clockwisefrom top): Alice Paul with banner | Library of Congress mnwp 160068; Sojourner Truth Library of Congress LC-USZ62-119343; women marching | Library of Congress LC-USZ62-10845 Interior illustrations: Mark Baziuk
Image on page : Women casting ballots, 1917 | LC-USZ62-75334 DLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan.

Rightfully ours : how women won the vote, 21 activities / Kerrie Logan Hollihan. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-883052-89-8 (pbk.)

1. WomenSuffrageUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 2. Womens rightsUnited StatesHistory Juvenile literature. 3. SuffragistsUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 4. WomenSuffrageStudy and teachingActivity programsUnited States. 5. Womens rightsStudy and teachingActivity programsUnited States. I. Title.

JK1898.H65 2012

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Printed in the United States of America
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In memory of my mother,
Charlotte Johnson Logan,
and my grandmothers

July 4, 1776		The Declaration of Independence is signed in Philadelphia
January 1777		Mary Katherine Goddard prints the first full copy of the Declaration
1836		Sarah Grimk speaks publicly against slavery
1837		Lucretia Mott speaks publicly against slavery
1840		Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are turned away as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
1843		Lucy Stone enters Oberlin College and is among its first women students
1848		Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and two others organize the first womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York; Stanton and Elizabeth McClintock write the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
1849		Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad
1850		Amelia Bloomer pushes for dress reform by wearing bloomers
1851		Sojourner Truth makes her Aint I a Woman? speech before a womens rights meeting in Ohio
1852		Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Toms Cabin
1861-1865		Suffragists set aside their work to aid the North during the Civil War
1868-1871		The 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution give black males citizenship and the vote; womens rights are ignored
1869		The womens suffrage movement divides over political differences, creating the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association
1872		Susan B. Anthony stands trial in Rochester, New York, for trying to vote in the presidential election
1876		Susan B. Anthony presents a Declaration of Rights for Women at the Centennial Convention in Philadelphia
1878		Susan B. Anthony writes a womens suffrage amendment to the Constitution
1883		Frances Willard founds the Womans Christian Temperance Union
1890		The suffrage movement reunites to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago and launches the Settlement Movement
1893