They said it couldn’t be done. Then they met the Suffs.

The first Women’s Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. There, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence, which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement.

At a Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech, “Ain't I a woman?”

The American Civil War grinds the women’s suffrage movement to a standstill.

The introduction of the 15th Amendment, which would enfranchise Black men, splinters the early women’s suffrage movement. The choice between universal rights or accepting the priority of Black male suffrage leads to the creation of two organizations: The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).

Utah grants women the right to vote at the state level.

The Woman’s Suffrage Amendment is introduced in Congress. Many more variations on a suffrage amendment are introduced and fail over the next several years.

After tensions dissipate, NWSA and AWSA combine to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. NAWSA’s mission is to lobby for women’s voting rights on a state-by-state basis.

The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) is formed to achieve equality for women of color.

Carrie Catt becomes the President of NAWSA.

California grants women the right to vote at the state level.

The first-ever Women's March on Washington is held on Pennsylvania Avenue the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration calling for a federal suffrage amendment.

Montana and Nevada grant women the right to vote at the state level. 

Alice Paul breaks away from NAWSA, and renames the Congressional Union as the National Woman's Party (NWP). They begin to introduce some of the more radical tactics of the suffrage movement in Britain over the refusal of President Woodrow Wilson and other incumbent Democrats to actively support the Suffrage Amendment.

The Suffs, calling themselves the Silent Sentinels, picket the White House in the United States first-ever silent protest. For two and a half years, more than 2,000 women protested Wilson. 

Alice Paul and other picketers are arrested over charges of “obstructing traffic” and taken to Occoquan Workhouse where they go on hunger strike and are forcibly fed.

WWI ends.

Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Michigan grant women the right to vote at the state level.

Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the Woman Suffrage Amendment, solidifying it into law.