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 ...

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, ...

Anthony as they strive to give birth to the women’s movement. Not until their deaths was their shared vision of women’s suffrage realized.

to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement and to provide a resource for newly-enfranchised women to take their part in public life. The deposit of books and archives in the early ...

Her perseverance and dedication significantly contributed to securing the right to vote for American women. Although nearly ...

However, if the parliamentary vote remained the elusive holy-grail for suffragists in the United Kingdom in 1913, they had still achieved many rights for women since 1867. Crucially, the suffrage ...

However, abortion is modern-day suffrage for many women. “Equality” and “fears their work is being undone” sums up the general motivation for attendees. It is a message more palatable than ...

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.

"It was a very long, hard fight," LWV National President Dianna Wynn told ABC11, referencing the women's suffrage movement. Wynn serves the league nationally but happens to live in Wake County.

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 ...

City police stood by, refusing to intervene. Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.

They could not keep their own property and money. How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of ...