Timeline of women's suffrage in Rhode Island

This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Rhode Island.

The first women's suffrage group in Rhode Island was founded in 1868.

A women's suffrage amendment was decided by referendum on April 6, 1887, but it failed by a large amount.

Finally, in 1917, Rhode Island women gained the right to vote in presidential elections.

On January 6, 1920, Rhode Island became the twenty-fourth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.

Suffrage workers visit the Rhode Island governor at state house to urge early ratification of 19th Amendment , July 15, 1919
Rhode Island Women Address of Elizabeth Buffum Chace Before the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association in October 1891
Woman suffrage gathering at the Newport Marble House of Alva Belmont on September 12, 1909
"Women of Rhode Island You Can Vote for the Next President" 1917 broadside