1848 Seneca Falls
1850 1st National Women's Rights Convention Worcester
1853 The Una, newspaper for woman's equal rights
1861-1865 Civil War
1865 13th Amendment - Abolished Slavery
1866 American Equal Rights Association
1868 14th Amendment - Citizenship rights – males 21 years of age
1868 New England Woman Suffrage Association
1868 RI Woman Suffrage Association
May 1869 National Woman Suffrage Association
1869 NWSA Convention - Newport
Nov. 1869 American Woman Suffrage Association
1870 15th Amendment - Black male Suffrage
1884 RIWSA Suffrage Convention at Old State House
1887 RI Women's Suffrage referendum defeated
1890 National American Woman Suffrage Association
1896 National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
1900 College Equal Suffrage League
1903 RI Union of Colored Women's Clubs
1907 RI College Equal Suffrage League
1908 Newport County Woman Suffrage League
1909 Conference at Marble House
1911 RI Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
1912 Progressive Party
1913 Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
1913 RI Woman Suffrage Party
1914 Conference at Marble House
1914-1918 World War I
1915 RI Equal Suffrage Association
1915 Rhode Island Suffrage Party - split from RIESA
1916 National Woman's Party - for states w/suffrage
1917 RI Presidential Suffrage for Women passed
1917 18th Amendment - Temperance
3/24/1919 League of Women Voters proposed
4/1/1919 League of Women Voters RI - chartered
4/9/1919 RI League of Women Voters/Providence - chartered
5/21/1919 House Passage 19th Amendment
6/4/1919 Senate Passage 19th Amendment
1/6/1920 Rhode Island ratifies 19th Amendment
2/14/1920 National League of Women Voters established
June 1920 International Woman Alliance Congress, Geneva
8/18/1920 Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment
8/26/1920 19th Amendment Signed into law
10/8/1920 United League of Women Voters established under 4/1 charter
5/16/1928 Name changed to RI League of Women Voters
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LWVRI - Centennial
