Spectators started hurling slurs and more at the marchers—scores ended up in the hospital—but the headline-making fracas played into the women’s desire for publicity. The suffrage parade in ...

Even so, Black women were frequently excluded from leadership roles and organizing committees within the movement. The 1913 suffrage parade, led by Alice Paul, exemplified this exclusion ...

The day before Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration, on March 3, 1913, Paul organized a women's suffrage parade of more than 5,000 participants from every state in the Union. The festivities drew ...

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, ...

The next day’s Lexington Herald declared it the largest suffrage parade in the history of Kentucky. A May 7, 1916, edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader shows coverage of a large women’s ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

A former UB faculty member who is a nationally-known scholar on the women's suffrage movement, DuBois will appear at UB later this month. She will return to UB to deliver a lecture titled "What ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...