Outline

Slowing the momentum for women's rights 1777-1920

This is the timeline to when women made use of Journalism to let their voices be heard and highlights how the media slowed the momentum for women to secure their rights in this country through the abuse of power.




     1. Women being confined to her place

• 1777 Mary Katherine Goddard and the printing of the Declaration of Independence
• 1792 Ladies magazine was created. First generation of women's magazine

     2.  Birth of the Women's rights movement

• 1848 Elizabeth Staton initiates the Seneca Falls Convention. 
• Declaration Of Sentiments
• Bio of Susan B Anthony
• 1852 Syracuse Star calls a meeting in the city as the "Tomfoolery Convention."
• 1855 Women's rights advocate Lucretia Mott acknowledges that newspapers ridiculed them. 

3.  Creating a voice of their own

• 1868 Staton and Anthony founded The Revolution.
• 1870 The Revolution ceased publication
• 1869 Staton and Anthony founded The National Women Suffrage
• 1870 Lucy Stone founded American Women Suffrage Association
• Lucy Stone creates The Women Journal

    
4.  The Attacks

• 1866 New York World degrades Anthony
• 1870 Utica Herald attacks Anthony's looks
• 1879 Richmond Herald takes a stab at Anthony's physical appearance
• 1869 Life magazines publishes a memorable image of Staton and Anthony as masculine and grim.

    

 5. Victory despite Fourth Estate.

• 1890 National American Suffrage Association created.
• 1870-1910 500 campaigns started  by feminists
• 1907 Harriot Staton Blatch creates the Women's political union.
• 1913 National Women party formed.
• 1918 Nineteenth Amendment passed with Carrie Chapman Catt winning plan and persistence.
• 1920 Women Suffrage became the law of the land

6. Conclusion on how the press had delayed and hindered women from securing their rights in the United States.