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The Virginia colony passes a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery, regardless of their father's race or status. [2] 1664. Maryland declares that any Englishwoman who married a slave had to live as a slave of her husband's master. [3] 1718
United States, New York City: New York City Council passed a law requiring all new establishments falling under the terms of the legislation to maintain roughly a two-to-one ratio of women's bathroom stalls to men's stalls and urinals. Existing establishments were required to come into compliance when they undergo extensive renovations, while ...
Poland: Article 96 of the Polish constitution of 1921 provided that all citizens were equal under law, however, it did not apply to married women. [75] On 1 July 1921 the Act on the Change of Certain Provisions of the Civil Law Pertaining to Women's Rights was enacted by the Sejm, to address the most obvious inequalities for women who were ...
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial. In 1921, Francis was honored with a silver loving cup and a ceremony at the Pilgrim Baptist Church, "on behalf of the race, men and women of St. Paul, as a small token of appreciation for your effort in behalf of the race, in conceiving and working for the consummation of the Anti-Lynch Law passed in the ...
United States, Minnesota: Married women granted separate economy. [13] Japan: Abortion was banned nationwide. [25] [26] Canada: Abortion was banned in Canada. [83] United States, Illinois and Massachusetts: In 1869 legislation was passed in Illinois and Massachusetts allowing married women equal rights to property and custody of their children ...
Lila Meade Valentine (born Lila Hardaway Meade; February 4, 1865 – July 14, 1921) was a Virginia education reformer, health-care advocate, and one of the main leaders of her state's participation in the woman's suffrage movement in the United States.
July 9, 1921: Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921; July 12, 1921: Naval Appropriations Act For 1922; August 15, 1921: Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921; August 15, 1921: Poultry Racket Act; August 24, 1921: Future Trading Act (Capper–Tincher Act), Sess. 1, ch. 86, 42 Stat. 187; November 9, 1921: Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps ...
Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women. 1923. Texas passes a white primary law. [36] 1924