https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy Made with a warm hug en-us 2021-11-18 22:12:30 UTC 2021-12-07 21:57:29 UTC hello@padlet.com aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919003946 In a letter to her husband, Founding Father John Adams, future first lady Abigail Adams makes a plea to him and the Continental Congress to “remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”]]> 2021-11-29 21:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919003946 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919006853 In the first women’s rights convention organized by women, the Seneca Falls Convention is held in New York, with 300 attendees, including organizers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Sixty-eight women and 32 men (including Frederick Douglass) sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which sparked decades of activism, eventually leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.]]> 2021-11-29 21:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919006853 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919009636 A former slave turned abolitionist and women’s rights activist, Sojourner Truth delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. “And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?”]]> 2021-11-29 21:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919009636 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919017715 2021-11-29 21:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919017715 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919026624 The legislature of the territory of Wyoming passes America’s first woman suffrage law, granting women the right to vote and hold office. In 1890, Wyoming is the 44th state admitted to the Union and becomes the first state to allow women the right to vote.]]> 2021-11-29 21:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919026624 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919031580 2021-11-29 21:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919031580 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919033453 Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is completed, declaring “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It is nicknamed “The Susan B. Anthony Amendment” in honor of her work on behalf of women’s suffrage.]]> 2021-11-29 21:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919033453 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919036779 2021-11-29 21:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919036779 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919039530 2021-11-29 21:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919039530 aryantandon458 https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919040614 Betty Friedan, author of 1963’s The Feminine Mystique, helps found the National Organization for Women (NOW), using, as the organization now states, “grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.”]]> 2021-11-29 21:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aryantandon458/zycjalbnvo2hwdhy/wish/1919040614