Timeline
A chronology of key events in the history of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Timeline
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1869, May 15
Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in New York City
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1869, Nov. 24
Founding of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Cleveland, Ohio
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1870
AWSA established the Woman's Journal
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1890, Feb.18
Founding convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) by the merger of the NWSA and the AWSA
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1890
Elizabeth Cady Stanton served as president of NAWSA (through 1892)
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1892
Susan B. Anthony elected president of NAWSA (through 1900)
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1900
First presidency of Carrie Chapman Catt (through 1904); enacted a "Society Plan" to recruit new members to the cause
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1904
Anna Howard Shaw served as president of NAWSA (through 1915)
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1913, Mar. 3
NAWSA organized the first national suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration
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1913, Apr.
NAWSA member Alice Paul founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU), initially consisting of women in the District of Columbia who supported the work of NAWSA's Congressional Committee. The CU and NAWSA's Congressional Committee are separate entities, but Paul chairs both and the executive boards are identical
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1914, Feb.
NAWSA and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, under Alice Paul's leadership, formally severed ties. NAWSA voted against admitting the CU as an auxiliary member. Eventually, in March 1917, the CU merged with the National Woman's Party (NWP), which it had created in June 1916
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1915, Dec.
Carrie Chapman Catt resumed the presidency of NAWSA
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1916
NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt devised a "Winning Plan" to campaign for suffrage on federal and state levels
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1919, June
Nineteenth Amendment passed in Congress and sent to states for ratification; NAWSA supported state ratification campaigns
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1920
Final NAWSA Convention and formal establishment of a National League of Women Voters. Under Catt's leadership, NAWSA remained involved in the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
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1920, Aug. 26
Nineteenth Amendment becomes law after ratification by thirty-six states
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1922
NAWSA published sixth and final volume of the History of Woman Suffrage, edited by Ida Husted Harper
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1923
NAWSA closed its New York headquarters; Catt remained president until her death in March 1947
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1947
Caroline McCormick Slade served as NAWSA's last president
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1950, Jan. 9
NAWSA board held its last meeting and dispersed all assets to other women's organizations including the League of Women Voters