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1874 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is founded, the largest
grass-roots women's organization of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
1875 Minor v. Happersett. The Supreme Court rules that the rights
guaranteed to citizens under the Constitution do not necessarily
include suffrage.
1880 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union endorses woman
suffrage.
1890 The National American Woman Suffrage Association is founded with
the merger of rival organizations, the National Woman Suffrage
Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
1896 The National Association of Colored Women is founded.
1908 Muller v. Oregon. The Supreme Court upholds an Oregon law
limiting working hours for women based on the idea that women's
frailty requires protection under the law.
1915 Woman's Peace Party is founded; reorganized in 1919 as the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
1916 National Woman's Party is founded by Alice Paul.
1919 The National Federation of Business and Professional Women is
founded.
1920
February The National League of Women Voters is created.
June The Women's Bureau is created within the Department of Labor.
August The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote is
ratified.
1921 The Sheppard-Towner Act passes Congress, providing federal
grants for six years to states establishing maternal and pediatric
health-care clinics.
1923 The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is introduced in Congress.
1927 After a bitter fight, Congress extends the life of the Sheppard-
Towner Act until June 30, 1929.
1935 National Council of Negro Women is founded by Mary McLeod
Bethune.
1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes the principle of equal pay,
but it did not apply to women's work.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Women's Liberation Movement in America. Contributors: Kathleen C. Berkeley - author. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: xviii.
    
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