| 1818 |
| Lucy Stone born, W. Brookfield, MA
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| 1824 |
| Sarah Parker Remond born, Salem, MA
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| 1831 |
| William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator
Remond's mother helps organize Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society
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| 1835 |
| Remond not allowed to attend segregated Salem High School
Remond family moves to Newport, RI
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| 1838 |
| Remond's brother Charles becomes first black agent for American Anti-slavery Society
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| 1841 |
| Remond family returns to Salem
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| 1844 |
| Remonds and other black families organize to end segregation in Salem public schools
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| 1847 |
| Stone graduates from Oberlin College
Stone gives first public lecture in Gardner, MA |
| 1848 |
| Stone hired as lecturer for American Anti-Slavery Society
Stone begins lecturing on woman's rights
Stone and Stephen Foster attacked by mob
First womans rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY |
| 1850 |
| Fugitive Slave Act passed
First national Womans Right Convention held in Worcester, MA
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| 1852 |
| Stone first meets Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stone begins wearing Bloomer costume
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| 1853 |
| Stone testifies before Massachusetts legislature on behalf of woman's rights
Remond refuses to sit in segregated area of Boston theater
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| 1855 |
| Stone marries Henry Blackwell but refuses to take his name
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| 1856 |
| Remond joins anti-slavery lecture tour
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| 1857 |
| Stones daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, born
Stone refuses to pay taxes because she is not allowed to vote
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| 1858 |
| Stone gives up public lecturing
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| 1859 |
| Remond begins anti-slavery lecture tour of British Isles
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| 1860 |
| Remond begins studying at Bedford Ladies College in London
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| 1861 |
| Civil War breaks out
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| 1863 |
| Emancipation Proclamation issued
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| 1865 |
| Civil War ends
13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, ratified
Massachusetts outlaws discrimination in public accommodations
Lucy Stone returns to lecturing
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| 1866 |
| Sarah Parker Remond moves to Italy
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| 1867 |
| Stone and Henry Blackwell campaign for woman suffrage in Kansas
Abolitionists and woman's rights supporters form American Equal Rights Association
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| 1868 |
| 14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship for African-Americans, ratified
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| 1869 |
| Woman's rights movement splits into two factions
Stone and her family move to Boston
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| 1870 |
| Stone begins publishing the Woman's Journal
15th Amendment, giving black men the vote, ratified
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| 1871 |
| Remond becomes a physician
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| 1877 |
| Remond marries Lazarro Pintor
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| 1879 |
| Massachusetts women win right to vote in school board elections
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| 1890 |
| Two factions of woman's rights movement unite
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| 1893 |
| Lucy Stone dies in Boston
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| 1894 |
| Sarah Parker Remond dies in Italy
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| 1920 |
| 19th Amendment, giving women right to vote, ratified
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