Timeline of women's suffrage in Rhode Island

File:Rhode_Island_Women_Address_of_Mrs._E.B._Chace_Before_the_Rhode_Island_Woman_Suffrage_Association_in_October_1891.jpg Before the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in October 1891]]

1850

• Paulina Wright Davis is the chair of the National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1852

• Anna W. Spencer publishes The Pioneer and Woman's Advocate.{{Cite web|last=DeSimone|first=Russell|date=3 July 2020|title=Rhode Island's Long Quest for Women's Suffrage|url=http://smallstatebighistory.com/rhode-islands-long-quest-for-womens-suffrage/|access-date=2020-09-28|website=Small State Big History}}

1853

• Davis publishes The Una.

1868

• October 23: Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Paulina Wright Davis attend the founding meeting of the New England Women's Suffrage Association.{{Cite web|last=Manning|first=Lucinda|date=2001|others=revised by Kim Nusco|title=Records of the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island|url=https://www.rihs.org/mssinv/mss021.htm|access-date=2020-09-28|website=Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division}}
• December 11: The Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association (RIWSA) is formed by Chace and Davis.{{Cite web|title=Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Inducted 2002|url=http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?iid=455|access-date=2020-09-28|website=Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame}}

1869

• RIWSA petitions the Rhode Island General Assembly for a women's suffrage amendment.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=909}}

1873

• Three women run unsuccessfully for school committee office: Elizabeth Churchill, Sarah Doyle, and Rhoda Peckham.

1874

• Three women are elected to the Providence School Committee: Anna E. Aldrich, Elizabeth C. Hicks and Abby D. Slocum.

1884

• RIWSA held their annual meeting at the Old Statehouse with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in attendance.{{Cite web|last=Stevens|first=Elizabeth C.|title=The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island|url=http://library.providence.edu/encompass/the-struggle-for-woman-suffrage-in-rhode-island/the-struggle-for-woman-suffrage-in-rhode-island/|access-date=2020-09-28|website=EnCompass}}

1885

• A women's suffrage amendment bill is introduced by Representative Edward L. Freeman in the General Assembly.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=909}}

1886

• The women's suffrage amendment passes both houses of the General Assembly. It has to pass one more time to be valid.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=909}}

1887

• The women's suffrage amendment again passes both houses and will now go out for a voter referendum.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=909}}
• April 6: The election for the amendment is held, but it fails.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=911}}
• August 11: The New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) held a conference in the Casino Theatre in Newport.{{Cite news|date=1887-08-06|title=Newport Woman Suffrage Association|pages=1|work=Newport Mercury|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38958093/julia-newport-mtg-american-woman/|access-date=2020-10-01|via=Newspapers.com}}

1892

• A "special appeal" goes before the general assembly for women in Rhode Island to vote in presidential elections.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=912}}

1895

• Jeanette S. French speaks at a hearing in the senate of the general assembly.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=912}}

1897

• A commission to revise the state constitution is appointed by the governor.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=912}}
• May 11: Suffragists present their objections to the Constitutional Committee.{{Sfn|Anthony|Harper|1902|p=912}}

File:Woman_suffrage_gathering_at_the_Newport_Marble_House_of_Alva_Belmont_on_September_12,_1909.jpg of Alva Belmont on September 12, 1909]]

1902

• Suffragists in Rhode Island get the endorsement of the State Central Trades and Labor Unions.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=565}}

1903

• Providence Mayor, Daniel L. D. Granger, endorses women's suffrage.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=565-566}}
• Mary H. Dickerson founds the Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs.{{Cite news|date=1914-07-09|title=Died|pages=8|work=The New York Age|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27621397/mary-dickerson-obituary-1914/|access-date=2020-10-03|via=Newspapers.com}}

1907

• December: The Rhode Island College Equal Suffrage League is formed.

1908

• Cora Mitchell forms the Newport County Woman Suffrage League.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=577}}

1909

• Alva Belmont hosts a series of women's suffrage lectures at the Marble Palace.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=567}}

1912

• A branch of the Rhode Island Association in Opposition to Woman Suffrage is formed in Newport.{{Cite news|date=1912-10-11|title=Opposed to Suffrage|pages=5|work=Newport Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60330675/newport-daily-news/|access-date=2020-10-01|via=Newspapers.com}}

1913

• The Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Party is created.
• Bertha G. Higgins convinces the Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs to endorse women's suffrage.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Elisa|date=2018|title=Biographical Sketch of Bertha G. Higgins|url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C3957500/biographical-sketch-bertha-g-higgins#page/1/mode/1/chapter/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C3957500|journal=Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists|via=Alexander Street}}

1914

• Alva Belmont holds the Conference of Great Women at the Marble House.{{Cite web|title=America's Suffragette Movement began with a Tea Party|url=https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/tea-blog/americas-suffragette-movement-began-with-a-tea-party|access-date=2020-10-01|website=Boston Tea Party Ships|language=en-US}}

1915

• The Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Party, RIWSA, and the Rhode Island College Equal Suffrage League merge to form the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association.
• September 15: Rhode Island suffragists, Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, accompany Sara Bard Field on a cross country trip by car.{{Cite web|last=DeSimone|first=Russell|date=11 January 2020|title=Rhode Island's Two Unheralded Suffragists|url=http://smallstatebighistory.com/rhode-islands-two-unheralded-suffragists/|access-date=2020-09-28|website=Small State Big History}}

1914

• Wife of Governor Charles Warren Lippitt, Margaret Farnum Lippitt, testifies against women's presidential suffrage at the Senate General Assembly.{{Cite web|title=Suffrage Timeline|url=https://www.lippitthousesuffrage.org/suffrage-timeline|access-date=2020-09-30|website=Lippit House Project|language=en}}

1916

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• February 17: A luncheon at the Naragansett Hotel is held in honor of Carrie Chapman Catt.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=570}}
• March 6: The Congressional Union of Providence, Rhode Island is formed.
• The Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs endorses a federal suffrage amendment.{{Cite web|title=Resolution of the R.I. Union Colored Women's Clubs Supporting the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment|url=https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/suffrage-ri-union|access-date=2020-09-29|website=DocsTeach}}

1917

• February 8: Another presidential suffrage bill is introduced.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=576}}
• April 11: The presidential bill passes the general assembly Senate.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=576}}
• April 17: The presidential suffrage bill passes both houses.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=576}}
• April 18: Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman signs the presidential suffrage bill.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=576}}

1920

• January 6: Rhode Island ratifies the Nineteenth Amendment.{{Cite web|title=Rhode Island and the 19th Amendment|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/rhode-island-women-s-history.htm|access-date=2020-09-28|website=U.S. National Park Service|language=en}}
• October 8: The League of Women Voters of Rhode Island is created.

1928

• Rhode Island abolishes the requirement of property-owning being tied to suffrage.

• List of Rhode Island suffragists
• New England Woman Suffrage Association
• Women's suffrage in Rhode Island
• Women's suffrage in the United States

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• {{Cite book|last=Harper|first=Ida Husted|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aX5KAAAAYAAJ&q=sarah+algeo+suffrage&pg=PA572|title=The History of Woman Suffrage|publisher=J.J. Little & Ives Company|year=1922|location=New York}}

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