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1913- Six local chapters of NCESL formed 1919- U.S. Congress passes the 19th WOMEN’S including one in Morganton organized by Amendment, ratification process begins. Susan Evans Taylor. 1920- May- Anti-suffragist Mary Hilliard SUFFRAGE: A

1914- Nevada and Montana adopt woman Hinton establishes state chapters of the suffrage. Southern Rejection League and the State’s TIMELINE Rights Defense League in Raleigh. 1848-1991 1914- The National Federation of Women’s August 17th- The NC State Senate Clubs formally endorses the suffrage postpones voting on the 19th Amendment, campaign. sends telegram against ratification to the 1914- Haywood County farm girl Hannah Tennessee legislature. Dotson writes suffragist columns for the August 26th- The 19th Amendment is Waynesville Courier. officially ratified.

1914- Gertrude Weil elected president of the October- Goldsboro Equal Suffrage Association. Charlotte Hawkins Brown creates a nd 1915- NCESL’s 2 annual convention held in statewide Asheville, Lula Roberts Platt elected campaign to president. register African

American women 1916- Jeanette Rankin of Montana is elected to the US House of Representatives. voters. Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Image courtesy of NC State 1917- NWP organizer Virginia Arnold is one Archives of the first DC suffrage picketers sent to jail. November 2nd- Lillian Exum Clement of Asheville is the first women elected to the 1918- With President Woodrow Wilson’s NC House of Representatives. th support the 19 Amendment passes in the This brochure was created by U.S. House of Representatives but fails in the 1930- Gertrude Dills McKee of Sylva is the Autumn Chandler Senate. first woman elected to the NC State Senate. for her Fall 2020 Public History 1991- The first African American woman to 1918- Despite a statewide campaign by Internship. represent NC in Congress, Eva Clayton also suffragists, only one congressman from NC became the state’s first black Representative Mountain Heritage Center votes in favor of the proposed amendment since 1901. mhc.wcu.edu (828) 227-7129

1. 2. 3. 1890- NWSA & AWSA merge together to 1908- Billy Borne’s first women’s suffrage National History become the National American Women cartoon appears in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Suffrage Association (NAWSA). NC History 1894- The North Carolina Equal Suffrage 1848- Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Association (NCESA) is organized in Convention. Asheville by Helen Morris Lewis, who is elected president. 1868- Writers of the NC Constitution reject inclusion of woman suffrage.

1869- National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) & American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) founded.

Helen 1878- Susan B. Morris Anthony’s Woman Lewis. suffrage Amendment Image is introduced in the courtesy 1909- Maude Brooks Cotton, Marie Clay US Congress. of Clint Clinton and Charlotte Hawkins Brown form

McCrory. the North Carolina Federation of Negro

Women’s Club (NCFNWC).

1896- Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells 1913- Alice Paul and Lucy Burns create the Image courtesy of Barnett and others found the National Congressional Union, later called the NWP, Library of Congress Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. to work for a passage of federal woman 1883- National 1897- Senator J. L. Hyatt of Yancey County suffrage amendment. temperance leader Frances Willard founds sponsors a woman suffrage bill in the NC the first North Carolina chapter of the General Assembly, which dies after being 1913- First large scale women’s suffrage Women’s Christian Temperance Union parade held in DC the day before Woodrow (WCTU) in Greensboro. sent to the Committee on Insane Asylums. Wilson’s inauguration. Ella Clapp Thompson

1902- North Carolina Federation of marches as part of the NC delegation. 1889- African American members of North Women’s Club organized. Carolina WCTU secede to form WCTU 1913- The women suffrage movement revives NO.2 the only black WCTU state chapter in 1902- Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia in North Carolina with organization of the the U.S. opened by Charlotte Hawkins Brown. NC Equal Suffrage League by Anna Forbes Liddell and Suzanne Bynum. Barbara Bynum Henderson was elected president.