As New York State Republicans gathered in Saratoga in mid-July 1918 for their state convention, they thought they had a handle on the issue of women’s suffrage. For the first time in state ...

A suffragette confidently displays a banner that chastises the treatment of suffrage prisoners for fighting for their right to vote in Washington D.C. in 1917. A car takes part in a suffragette ...

WHEN academics at Oxford’s Bodleian Library were curating a major exhibition on suffrage there was something missing. Sappho to Suffrage: women who dared, marks the centenary of the ...

The situation quickly grew tense. “Take down that banner or I’m through with woman suffrage for life,” one man screamed at Burns. “You are a friend to the enemy, and a disgrace to your ...

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, ...

They festooned the stadium with yellow banners and printed baseball-themed fliers, with exhortations like “Fans, Fair Play” and “Make a Home Run for Suffrage.” Everybody, The New York ...

Suffragists displaying banners in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1912. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images ... Suffrage banner bearers being arrested during protests outside the White House.

Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, lead an estimated 20,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave. in 1915 .

Students from Newnham and Girton colleges carried the original banner through London in 1908 An artist had to learn "lost techniques" to recreate a suffrage banner for Cambridge University. The ...

Curators knew that between 80 and 90 members of the Oxford Women’s Suffrage Society travelled to London on June 13, 1908, to join a procession. On the day they carried three banners but none ...

An artist had to learn "lost techniques" to recreate a suffrage banner for Cambridge University. The original was carried by students from women's colleges Newnham and Girton on marches in London ...