The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century

A watershed century of women's history: 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published in the United States.1832 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society founded.1839 Mississippi passes Married Women's Property Act.1851 Sojourner Truth delivers "Aren't I a Woman" speech.1854 Postmaster profession first to establish pay equity for male and female employees.1866 Equal Rights Association founded by, among others, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.1870s Esther McQuigg Morris becomes first woman judge in the United States.1873 Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass run for president and vice president on the People's Party ticket.1881 Eliza Ann Otis becomes first woman reporter for the Los Angeles Times.1894 University of California awards first engineering degree to a woman graduate.1896 National Association of Colored Women founded; Dr. Mary Church Terrell elected first president.1920 Women's suffrage amendment ratified as Nineteenth Amendment.