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Author: History.com
Title: Famous Firsts in Women’s history
Website URL: newsela.com
Publisher: Newsela
Date of Publication: 3.01.17
Main Ideas/ subtitles
Launching the women’s suffrage movement
Wyoming, the first state to let women vote
Paul pushes for an equal rights amendment
O’Connor ,first female supreme court justice
Albright, first female secretary of state
Clinton, first female presidential nominee
Supporting Details
In July 1848, 240 men and women gathered in upstate
New York “to discuss the social, civil and religious
condition and rights of women.”
A Declaration of Sentiments like the Declaration of
Independence was signed by 68 women and 32 men.
The document declared that women, like men, were
citizens with an “inalienable right" to vote.
This convention marked the beginning of the campaign
for women’s suffrage.
Wyoming’s government declared in 1869 that “every
woman of the age of 21 years, residing in this territory,
may at every election cast her vote.”
It took Alice Paul and women’s rights activists almost 50
years to get Congress to approve the amendment.
In 1972, and Congress sent the proposed amendment to
the states.
Twenty-two states ratified it right away, while it faced
opposition in the remaining states. An anti-ratification
campaign stopped the amendment from being passed.
O'Connor made a name for herself on as one of the
Supreme Court’s most centrist judges.
She served for 25 years
In January 1997, international relations expert Madeleine
K. Albright was sworn in as secretary of state in the Bill
Clinton administration. It made her the highest-ranking
woman in the federal government’s history at the time.
On July 26, 2016, Hillary Clinton, the former first lady,
senator and secretary of state, was officially nominated
 as the Democratic nominee in the presidential election.

first woman from a major party to achieve this position.

Summary of the article:

Over the years, women have strived to create better futures for the
women of generations to come. American women's history has
been full of pioneers. These women were all firsts and each of
these women made great accomplishes. This article shows only a
few examples of their great accomplishments.