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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.^[1]

1853

1863

• The first book by Virginia Penny, The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman’s Work is published.^[3]

1866

1867

1871

• “Qualified women” are allowed to vote in Dayton on a municipal bond of indebtedness.

1879

1881

1886

1887

• July: Mary E. Britton speaks on suffrage issues in Danville at a meeting of the Kentucky Colored Teachers’ State Association.

1888

• 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.

1889

1890

• 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.

1891

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

1892

• 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.

1893

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

1894

• Covington, Lexington, and Newport pass school suffrage measures for women.^[7]
• Women and members of KERA successfully oppose the reelection of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge.
• October 24-26: State suffrage convention was held in Lexington.

1895

• First and only African American suffrage group in Kentucky is formed, the Covington Colored Organization.
• January 12: Susan B. Anthony gives her “Suffrage for Women” lecture in Louisville.
• 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

• Columbus Equal Rights Association is created with 10 members.^[20]
• October 14-15: State suffrage convention is held in Covington with Emma Smith DeVoe present.

1898

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

1899

1901

1902

• Limited suffrage won by women is repealed by the state legislature.^[7]

1903

• KERA starts publishing the Kentucky E.R.A. Newsletter.

1906

1908

• The Louisville Equal Rights Association changes their name to the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville.
• The Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs (KFWC) pursues a school suffrage bill in the state legislature.

1909

• November 11-12: The state suffrage convention is held in Louisville and Shaw attends.^[26]

1910

• November: Shaw speaks in Covington.^[27]

1911

• October 19-25: NAWSA holds their annual convention in Louisville.^[28]

1912

• The right to vote in school elections for literate women is secured statewide.

1913

• July: The Anderson County Woman’s Suffrage League is formed.^[30]

1914

• The KFWC officially endorses women’s suffrage.

1916

• May: A parade of over 1,000 suffragists march in Lexington.^[32]

1918

• The annual state suffrage convention was cancelled due to the flu epidemic.

1919

• March 11-12: state suffrage convention is held in Louisville.

1920

• Allen, Ann Taylor (Spring 2020). “Woman Suffrage and Progressive Reform in Louisville, 1908-1920”. Ohio Valley History. 20 (1): 54–78 – via Project Muse.
• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Fuller, Paul E. (1975). Laura Clay and the Woman’s Rights Movement. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813112990.
• Goan, Melanie Beals (Spring 2020a). “The ‘Argument of Numbers’: Laura Clay and the Failure of the Kentucky Plan”. Ohio Valley History. 20 (1): 9–29 – via Project MUSE.
• Goan, Melanie Beals (2020). A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813180175 – via Oxford Academic.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Hollingsworth, Randolph (Spring 2020). “African American Women Voters in Lexington’s School Suffrage Times, 1895-1902: Race Matters in the History of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Movement”. Ohio Valley History. 20 (1): 30–53 – via Project MUSE.
• Meyer, Jana (Spring 2020). “‘Politics is a Moral Science’: Tracing the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Filson’s Collections”. Ohio Valley History. 20 (1): 84–92 – via Project MUSE.