CHARLESTON, S.C. (The College Today) — One hundred years ago today, women’s voices were finally heard, their opinions finally given equal weight, their priorities finally afforded a chance to be ...
This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...
Women argued, protested and took to the streets as they fought for the right to vote. They were arrested and jailed. Some were beaten. Others risked their marriages and their standing in the community ...
The women's suffrage movement was launched at a women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. The campaign to win women the right to vote would drag on for more than 70 years until, in ...
How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus. Text by Jennifer Harlan Introduction by Veronica Chambers, Jennifer Harlan and Jennifer ...
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New women’s suffrage monument approved for National Mall
A new national monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement has been approved for the National Mall, marking the first ...
Today, women being able to vote is a given. A no-brainer. A natural, non-negotiable insurance of a Constitution designed to provide equality for all people. But before the 19th Amendment was ratified ...
A postcard from the turn of the 20th century that reads: "My wife's joined the Suffrage Movement, (I've suffered ever since!)" (Rykoff Collection / CORBIS / Getty) Editor's Note: Read more stories in ...
The origin of “suffrage” is not suffering, although plenty of people suffered in the pursuit of suffrage. It derives from the Latin suffragium, meaning a vote or a right to vote. It can also mean a ...
Art by Libby VanderPloeg, featured in She Votes: How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn, published by Chronicle Books 2020. After decades of struggle by American women — ...
The right to vote, insisted some women, would undermine their efforts to promote the public good Amanda B. Moniz The trouble began soon after well-known social reformer Emily Bissell had finished her ...
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