User:Megalibrarygirl/Timeline of women's suffrage in Kentucky

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1830s
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.

1850s
1853


 * November: Lucy Stone speaks about women's rights issues to full houses in Louisville.

1860s
1863


 * The first book by Virginia Penny, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work is published.

1866


 * March: The Black Convention is formed to discuss equal rights for African Americans in Kentucky.

1867


 * July 4: Black women organize a barbecue where speeches in favor of Black suffrage are featured.
 * October: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaign in Louisville.

1870s
1871

1879
 * "Qualified women" are allowed to vote in Dayton on a municipal bond of indebtedness.


 * October: Susan B. Anthony speaks in Richmond and makes connections with the family of Laura Clay.

1880s
1881

1886
 * The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) national convention is held in Louisville.


 * October: The Association for the Advancement of Women (A.A.W.) meets in Louisville where women's suffrage is publicly discussed.

1888

1889
 * January: The Fayette County Equal Rights Association is formed.
 * November 22: The Kentucky Equal Rights Association (KERA) is formed.
 * Women who are widows or "spinsters" are now allowed to vote on school taxes in non-chartered cities.


 * November 19-21: Second annual convention of KERA is held in Lexington.
 * The Louisville Equal Rights Association (LERA) is formed.

1890s
1890

1891
 * October: Suffragists lobby politicians in Frankfort during the state constitutional convention.
 * December 3-4: Annual meeting of KERA is held in Richmond, John G. Fee is a speaker.


 * December 8-10: Anna Howard Shaw spoke at the KERA annual convention held this time in Louisville.

1892

1893
 * November 9-10: KERA holds their annual state suffrage meeting in Richmond.
 * The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Kentucky votes to support women's suffrage in the state.


 * October 17-19: State suffrage convention is held in Newport.

1894


 * Covington, Lexington, and Newport pass school suffrage measures for women.
 * October 24-26: State suffrage convention was held in Lexington.

1895


 * December 10-12: The state suffrage convention is held in Richmond.

1896


 * December 18: During the state suffrage convention held in Lexington, a committee to work towards full school suffrage in the state is formed.

1897

1898
 * Columbus Equal Rights Association is created with 10 members.
 * October 14-15: State suffrage convention is held in Covington with Emma Smith DeVoe present.


 * December 1: State suffrage convention takes place in Richmond.

1899


 * December 11-12: The state suffrage convention takes place in Lexington with Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay present as speakers.

1900s
1902

1906
 * Limited suffrage won by women is repealed by the state legislature.

1908
 * November: Anna Howard Shaw speaks at the state suffrage convention held in Ashland.


 * The Louisville Equal Rights Association changes their name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville.

1909


 * The state suffrage convention is held in Louisville and Shaw attends.

1910s
1910

1911
 * November: Shaw speaks in Covington.


 * October 19-25: NAWSA holds their annual convention in Louisville.

1913

1914
 * 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.


 * The Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs (KFWC) officially endorses women's suffrage.

1920s
1920


 * January 6: Kentucky ratifies the 19th Amendment.