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Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ... the landmark 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights found it hard to get their heads around it.
They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement. My research suggests that the personal lives of these suffrage leaders shaped their political agendas. Rather than emphasizing ...
Local organizations are inviting guests to learn how Painesville was involved in the movement for women’s voting rights. The ...
To be a free people, nothing is more fundamental than our right to vote. Women in America had to fight for that right until 1920. Now, 105 years later, Congress is attacking it, especially in ...
Jessie Stephen spent her life committed to activism for trade unions and women's rights. A new statue honouring ... to the early example of female suffrage in a little-known book.
We do not wish to take any rights from the men ... Continuing to be active in the suffrage movement, she was elected president of the Nogales League of Women Voters in 1922.
The homage is a couture callback to other momentous political events in which women wearing white has played a role, ...
Anthony Day in February. Hawley visited to note Western New York’s long history in the women’s suffrage movement, including one of his relatives, Ella Hawley Crossett.
Moira Mulholland narrates the history of (European) women's rights through images, interviews, and performances focusing in on the Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada.
A sign on the Lake Erie College Women’s Rights Walkway recognizes the ... includes signs recognizing milestones in the movement for women’s suffrage and activists with ties to Northeast ...
on the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage, congressional women yet again donned white, as a commitment to defending women’s rights overall. And again, earlier this year, the Democratic ...