Margaret Sanger wins her suit in New York to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes.ġ920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. 637 (Court of Appeals 1917), National Archives, Records of the U.S. The most well-known of birth control advocates, she is one of hundreds arrested over a 40-year period for working to establish women’s right to control their own bodies.ġ918 New York v. The win is a two-edged sword: the protective legislation implies that women are physically weak.ġ916 Margaret Sanger tests the validity of New York’s anti-contraception law by establishing a clinic in Brooklyn. Supreme Court upholds Oregon’s 10-hour workday for women. The court declares women as “persons,” but holds that they constitute a “special category of _nonvoting_ citizens.”ġ879 Through special Congressional legislation, Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the Supreme Court.ġ890 The first state (Wyoming) grants women the right to vote in all elections.ġ900 By now, every state has passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act (1848), granting married women some control over their property and earnings.ġ908 Muller v State of Oregon, 208 U.S. Supreme Court declares that despite the privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from voting. Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman (Myra Colby Bradwell) from practicing law.ġ875 Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. The chief justice stops a motion to prohibit the integration of the jury, stating: “It seems to be eminently proper for women to sit upon Grand Juries, which will give them the best possible opportunities to aid in suppressing the dens of infamy which curse the country.”ġ873 Bradwell v. is passed in the territory of Wyoming.ġ870 The 15th Amendment receives final ratification, saying, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” By its text, women are not specifically excluded from the vote.ġ870 The first sexually integrated grand jury hears cases in Cheyenne, Wyoming. the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in proportion.” It is the first time “citizens” and “voters” are defined as “male” in the Constitution.ġ869 The first woman suffrage law in the U.S.
is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State. Celia, a Slave, a Black woman is declared to be property without a right to defend herself against a master’s act of rapeġ866 The 14th Amendment is passed by Congress (ratified by the states in 1868), saying “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective members, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.But when the right to vote. The terms “persons,” “people” and “electors” are used, allowing the interpretation of those beings to include men and women.ġ839 The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name, with their husbands’ permission.ġ848 At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society.ġ855 In Missouri v. It said, “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in the law? The very being and legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated into that of her husband under whose wing and protection she performs everything.”ġ777 All states pass laws which take away women’s right to vote.ġ789 United States Constitution ratified. Timeline of Legal History of Women in the United Statesġ701 The first sexually integrated jury hears cases in Albany, New York.ġ769 American colonies based their laws on the English common law, which was summarized in the Blackstone Commentaries.
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