As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades. Despite a history of hostility to their cause ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members ... Binghamton, studies the history of women’s participation in social movements, in voluntary organizations and in American ...

In opening her address, Mrs. Pankhurst briefly outlined the history of the woman suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in England, women learned by experience ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. By Jennifer Schuessler The end of a ...

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 Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the right to vote. In 1897, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was formed to bring these groups together.

But few movements in history have had as much of an impact ... “Liberation as a result of the suffrage movement meant women no longer wished to smell of flowers,” explains perfumer and scent ...

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 ...