Timeline of Women's History

League of Women Voters^®
of the Ann Arbor Area

Click for a Timeline of Women's History
From 1776, when Abigail Adams writes to her husband John asking that the Declaration of Independence "remember the ladies"....
to 1920 when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting the vote to women, became law on August
26. Women vote for the first time in the presidential election on November 2.

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