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short timeline of Women's Rights
1835 Arkansas: (1st)Married women allowed to own (but not control) property in their own name
1857 Maine: (1st)Married women granted the right to control their own earnings
1920 Women granted right to vote, 19th Amendment (women's suffrage movement)
1972 Supreme Court rules that the right to privacy includes an unmarried person's right to use contraceptives
2013 Congress...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_rights_%28other_than_voting%29
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html
posted this today on my facebook, where I preach at a few hundred Redcoats. Its interesting to see peoples reaction.
I think this would make a great Meme, and I'm fluent in photoshop, so I guess that's all me.
