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 ...

A car full of suffragettes advertises a talk on the Women’s Suffrage Movement by famous women’s rights activist Jane Addams and others at Carnegie Hall in New York on Feb. 9, 1913.

One hundred years ago today, women in the United States won the right to vote. It was just a few sentences. But the ratification to the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, made it clear that, “t… ...

Persistence is key. Women won the right to vote as the result of decades-long struggle. The demand for women’s suffrage was first made in 1848, in a small town in Upstate New York, at a time ...

The Women’s Suffrage Movement Included More Than Two Women and So Should the Monuments ... It took another 45 years before Black women could vote as a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It was just over 100 years ago that the U.S. Senate approved the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted American women full voting rights, and celebrations are scheduled across the country.But while ...

Today, we see the effects that racism had on the women’s suffrage movement (and yes, we won the right to vote), but think about how much further along we would be as a nation if the work of ...

Some of the things you know about suffrage, including the inclusivity of the movement, need to change. In the span of 100 years, rumor can turn into legend.

Historian Susan Ware talked about some of the 19 lesser-known suffrage leaders profiled in her book, [Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote]. This National ...

Haudenosaunee women inspired women’s suffrage movement (Commentary) Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8:38 a.m. Women's Rights National Historic Park Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as central to the fight for civil rights as anyone could be, insisting on and practicing peaceful protest every day, was also an adulterer. We know now that he had ...

Suffrage movement convinced women they could ‘have it all ... Since women’s rights and civil rights reformer Sojourner Truth first started distributing her portraits in the 1860s to challenge ...