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19th century[edit]
1830s[edit]
1838
- Kentucky passes a state law allowing women who were head of household taxpayers in rural areas the ability to vote in elections for common schools.[1]
1850s[edit]
1853
- November: Lucy Stone speaks about women's rights issues to full houses in Louisville.[2]
1860s[edit]
1863
- The first book by Virginia Penny, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work is published.[2]
1866
- March: The Black Convention is formed to discuss equal rights for African Americans in Kentucky.[2]
1867
- July 4: Black women organize a barbecue where speeches in favor of Black suffrage are featured.[2]
- October: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaign in Louisville.[3]
1870s[edit]
1871
1879
- October: Susan B. Anthony speaks in Richmond and makes connections with the family of Laura Clay.[5]
1880s[edit]
1881
- The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) national convention is held in Louisville.[6]
1886
- October: The Association for the Advancement of Women (A.A.W.) meets in Louisville where women's suffrage is publicly discussed.[7]
1888
- January: The Fayette County Equal Rights Association is formed.[8]
- November 22: The Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) is formed.[9]
- Women who are widows or "spinsters" are now allowed to vote on school taxes in non-chartered cities.[10]
1889
- November 19-21: Second annual convention of KERA is held in Lexington.[11]
- The Louisville Equal Rights Association (LERA) is formed.[12]
1890s[edit]
1890
- October: Suffragists lobby politicians in Frankfort during the state constitutional convention.[13]
- December 3-4: Annual meeting of KERA is held in Richmond, John G. Fee is a speaker.[11]
1891
- December 8-10: Anna Howard Shaw spoke at the KERA annual convention held this time in Louisville.[11]
1892
- November 9-10: KERA holds their annual state suffrage meeting in Richmond.[11]
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Kentucky votes to support women's suffrage in the state.[11]
1893
- October 17-19: State suffrage convention is held in Newport.[11]
1894
- Covington, Lexington, and Newport pass school suffrage measures for women.[6]
- October 24-26: State suffrage convention was held in Lexington.[14]
1895
- December 10-12: The state suffrage convention is held in Richmond.[14]
1896
- December 18: During the state suffrage convention held in Lexington, a committee to work towards full school suffrage in the state is formed.[14]
1897
- Columbus Equal Rights Association is created with 10 members.[15]
- October 14-15: State suffrage convention is held in Covington with Emma Smith DeVoe present.[14]
1898
- December 1: State suffrage convention takes place in Richmond.[14]
1899
- December 11-12: The state suffrage convention takes place in Lexington with Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay present as speakers.[14]
20th century[edit]
1900s[edit]
1902
- Limited suffrage won by women is repealed by the state legislature.[6]
1906
- November: Anna Howard Shaw speaks at the state suffrage convention held in Ashland.[16]
1908
- The Louisville Equal Rights Association changes their name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville.[12]
1909
- The state suffrage convention is held in Louisville and Shaw attends.[17]
1910s[edit]
1910
- November: Shaw speaks in Covington.[18]
1911
- October 19-25: NAWSA holds their annual convention in Louisville.[19]
1913
- School suffrage is restored where it was repealed, but women must pass a literacy test first in order to vote.
- July: The Anderson County Woman's Suffrage League is formed.[20]
1914
- The Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs (KFWC) officially endorses women's suffrage.[21]
1920s[edit]
1920
- January 6: Kentucky ratifies the 19th Amendment.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "ANSWER: Kentucky, first passed a statewide law granting women the right to vote? -". Kentucky Suffrage Project. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d Hollingsworth, Randolph (3 February 2018). "History of Kentucky Women's Suffrage: An Overview | H-Kentucky". H-Net. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ Goan 2020, p. 19.
- ^ Goan 2020, p. 20.
- ^ Fuller 1975, p. 22-23.
- ^ a b c d "Kentucky and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Anthony 1902, p. 665.
- ^ Fuller 1975, p. 31.
- ^ Fuller 1975, p. 32.
- ^ Anthony 1902, p. 670.
- ^ a b c d e f Anthony 1902, p. 666.
- ^ a b Allen 2020, p. 64.
- ^ Anthony 1902, p. 669.
- ^ a b c d e f Anthony 1902, p. 667.
- ^ "Mrs. E.W. Avery". Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Clipped From The Lexington Herald". The Kentucky Equal Rights Convention. 1906-11-25. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-03-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Allen 2020, p. 65.
- ^ "An Interesting Piece of Jewelry". The Kansas City Star. 1910-11-18. p. 15. Retrieved 2022-03-09 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dawson, Kristen (28 June 2016). "1911 NAWSA Convention in Louisville". H-Kentucky | H-Net. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ^ "Wallace Moore Bartlett". Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Allen 2020, p. 58.
Sources[edit]
- Allen, Ann Taylor (Spring 2020). "Woman Suffrage and Progressive Reform in Louisville, 1908-1920". Ohio Valley History. 20 (1): 54–78 – via Project Muse.
- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Fuller, Paul E. (1975). Laura Clay and the Woman's Rights Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813112990.
- Goan, Melanie Beals (2020). A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813180175.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
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