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 ...

Members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized statewide “Votes for Women” campaigns. They used buttons, signs, and gimmicks like the ring parade spinner to promote their cause ...

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts will present the world premiere of LADIES, HOW DARE YOU!, a musical comedy ...

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 ...

My first exposure to the women’s suffrage movement was through the character of Mrs. Banks in the movie Mary Poppins. Mrs. Banks makes her grand entrance wearing a “Votes for Women” sash ...

Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story. Horse-drawn floats, trumpeters, banners, and thousands of marchers.

Alice Paul was a pioneering American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist who played a crucial role in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. Paul dedicated her life to ...

Again, the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., has tried and failed to equate abortion with suffrage. The annual march, held first in 2017 as a counter to former President Donald Trump’s inauguration, ...

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, ...

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 ...