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timeline of women's suffrage in Connecticut is...

1860s
1866


 * November: Hartford Courant publishes articles in favor of women's suffrage.

1867


 * Frances Ellen Burr introduces a women's suffrage bill in the Connecticut General Assembly which is narrowly defeated.
 * December: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton visit Hartford.

1869


 * October 29: Women's suffrage convention held in Hartford, Connecticut.
 * The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) is formed.

1870s
1870

1873
 * September: CWSA held its annual meeting in Hartford.

1874
 * December 15: John Hooker's opinion on the trial of Susan B. Anthony is published in the Hartford Courant. Hooker wrote that "she had the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment."

1877
 * Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker speak at Cheney Hall in Manchester, Connecticut.


 * Married women are able to legally control their own property.

1880s
1884


 * A bill to allow women the right to vote in school district meetings loses in the state legislature.

1885

1886
 * The Hartford Equal Rights League is founded.
 * The state legislature again defeats a school suffrage bill.


 * A bill for full women's suffrage is defeated in the state legislature.

1887


 * Two women's suffrage bills in the state legislature are marked as "Ought not to pass" and go no further in committee.

1889


 * The Meriden Political Equality Club was formed.

1890s
1893

1894
 * Women gain the right to vote for school officials.
 * Rose Payton is the first African American woman to register to vote in Hartford.

1895
 * The Equal Rights Club of Willimantic is formed.


 * A presidential suffrage bill does not pass in the state legislature.
 * A bill for women's municipal suffrage passes in the state House, but fails in the state Senate.

1897

1899
 * School suffrage law is amended, making voter registration more complicated.
 * Bills for presidential and municipal suffrage do not pass in the state legislature.


 * A municipal suffrage bill does not pass again in the state legislature.

1900s
1901

1902
 * The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.


 * The state suffrage convention is held in Collinsville, Connecticut.
 * Mary Seymour Howell campaigns in Connecticut on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

1903


 * The state suffrage convention is held at the home of Isabella Beecher Hooker in Hartford.

1905

1906
 * November: The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.


 * The state suffrage convention is held in Meriden, Connecticut.

1907


 * October: Suffragists hold their state convention in Hartford.

1909


 * The state suffrage convention is held in Meriden.
 * Women gain the right to vote on school and library issues.
 * October: Emmeline Pankhurst visits and speaks in Hartford.
 * The Hartford Political Equality League (later called the Hartford Equal Franchise League) is formed.

1910s
1910 1911
 * The Connecticut Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is formed.
 * Fall: The state suffrage convention is held in Greenwich.
 * At the Greenwich annual farmer's picnic, suffragists from CWSA invited Ella Reeve Bloor to speak.


 * Activists hold the state suffrage convention in Bridgeport.

1912

1913
 * Hartford suffrage groups send postcards to people in surrounding areas in order to advertise women's suffrage events.
 * The annual suffrage convention is held in New Haven, Connecticut.
 * The New Haven Political Equality Club is founded after the convention.


 * July: The Wallingford Equal Franchise League raises money and awareness by selling food and giving away brochures at July 4th events.
 * The state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.

1914


 * May 2: Thousands march in suffrage parade through Hartford.
 * Summer: CWSA holds a "rowboat platform" at beaches in Connecticut, sharing information about women's suffrage to beach-goers.
 * June: A car tour supporting women's suffrage started through Connecticut.
 * September: CWSA staff a booth at the Connecticut Fair Grounds, providing suffrage literature and outreach.
 * The annual suffrage convention is held in Hartford.

1915


 * October: State suffrage convention is held in Hartford.

1916

1917
 * A large parade with thousands of participants and spectators takes place in New Haven.
 * September 7: The Connecticut State Federation of Labor votes in favor of women's suffrage.
 * The state suffrage convention is held in New Haven.


 * February: The Connecticut House judiciary committee hears testimony from both CWSA and from anti-suffragists on women voting in Connecticut.
 * November 7-8: Forty-eighth annual state suffrage convention is held in Hartford.

1918


 * The Connecticut Federation of Labor endorses the Nineteenth Amendment almost unanimously.
 * African American suffragists organize their own suffrage league in New Haven.
 * July 12: Suffragists form rallies in Hartford and Simsbury, Connecticut and decide to appeal directly to the President on the question of women's suffrage.
 * States suffrage convention is held in Hartford.

1919


 * January 8: Josephine Bennett, a member of the NWP, is arrested for burning Woodrow Wilson's speech in front of the White House.
 * March 10: The Prison Special stops in Hartford.
 * The annual suffrage convention is held in Bridgeport.

1920s
1920


 * May 3-7: "Emergency Week" is declared in regards to blocking the vote on women's suffrage. The Suffrage Emergency Corps is assembled to support the federal amendment.
 * September 14: Connecticut state legislature ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment.

1921


 * January 18: The Connecticut League of Women Voters is formed.