In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...
Women's suffrage, but for whom? These 10 Black suffragists fought for the vote before—and long after—the 19th Amendment Open an American history textbook from the last 50 years to the women's suffrage ...
This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...
The origins of the award-winning, critically acclaimed musical “Suffs” — about the women’s suffrage movement — can be traced ...
Ida Porter Boyer, a Schuylkill County woman who played a leading role in the women’s suffrage movement, is on track to being honored with a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker. J.
A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law. The yet-to-be-built ...
INDEPENDENCE ON JULY 4TH, 1776. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ROLE OF THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT AMID THE AMERICA 250 CELEBRATIONS ON THE SENATE FLOOR YESTERDAY, IOWA’S SENIOR ...
PENDLETON — The Heritage Station Museum in Pendleton is showcasing a new exhibit on the effort to secure women the vote in America. “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” is on display through ...
Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting the program “Battle for the Ballot: Cleveland’s Suffragist Movement” at 7 p.m. March 11. There is no complete record of the brave, and often untamed women, who ...
“The old stiff minds must give way. The old selfish minds must go. Obstructive reactionaries must move on. The young are at the gates!” Lavinia Dock, a nurse and feminist activist, wrote in The ...