The forces against suffrage are very familiar to us today. There was a lot of money in the anti-suffrage campaign from the liquor industry, because many suffragists also supported the temperance ...

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

This is an Anti-Suffrage pamphlet (cost 1d), published by the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League which was founded on 21 July 1908 to oppose votes for women. There were branches all over the UK.

However, that was most definitely not the majority view; another anonymous student satirized the anti-suffrage viewpoint held by some men under the none-too-subtle pen name 'J. Ilted' in this poem ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Garrisonian women did not necessarily oppose woman suffrage, but they emphasized instead ... and a charter member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society founded in 1833, which included ...

Susila Bonnerjee and Nolini Bonnerjee were active in the Church League for Women’s Suffrage seen in the the bottom right of this photograph from 1913 Badge from the Women's National Anti-Suffrage ...

City police stood by, refusing to intervene. Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.