1818
Lucy Stone born, W. Brookfield, MA

1824
Sarah Parker Remond born, Salem, MA

1831
William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Liberator

Remond's mother helps organize Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society

1835
Remond not allowed to attend segregated Salem High School

Remond family moves to Newport, RI

1838
Remond's brother Charles becomes first black agent for American Anti-slavery Society

1841
Remond family returns to Salem

1844
Remonds and other black families organize to end segregation in Salem public schools

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 woman’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY

1850
Fugitive Slave Act passed

First national Woman’s Right Convention held in Worcester, MA

1852
Stone first meets Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Stone begins wearing Bloomer costume

1853
Stone testifies before Massachusetts legislature on behalf of woman's rights

Remond refuses to sit in segregated area of Boston theater

1855
Stone marries Henry Blackwell but refuses to take his name

1856
Remond joins anti-slavery lecture tour

1857
Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, born

Stone refuses to pay taxes because she is not allowed to vote

1858
Stone gives up public lecturing

1859
Remond begins anti-slavery lecture tour of British Isles

1860
Remond begins studying at Bedford Ladies College in London

1861
Civil War breaks out

1863
Emancipation Proclamation issued

1865
Civil War ends

13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, ratified

Massachusetts outlaws discrimination in public accommodations

Lucy Stone returns to lecturing

1866
Sarah Parker Remond moves to Italy

1867
Stone and Henry Blackwell campaign for woman suffrage in Kansas

Abolitionists and woman's rights supporters form American Equal Rights Association

1868
14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship for African-Americans, ratified

1869
Woman's rights movement splits into two factions

Stone and her family move to Boston

1870
Stone begins publishing the Woman's Journal

15th Amendment, giving black men the vote, ratified

1871
Remond becomes a physician

1877
Remond marries Lazarro Pintor

1879
Massachusetts women win right to vote in school board elections

1890
Two factions of woman's rights movement unite

1893
Lucy Stone dies in Boston

1894
Sarah Parker Remond dies in Italy

1920
19th Amendment, giving women right to vote, ratified


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