that half a century later we would be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation of women.” Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ...

They carried signs intended to challenge and embarrass ... Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing ...

Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of ... History Merch & Suffrage National Museum of American History Pen used to sign the Woman Suffrage Joint Resolution, 1919 ...

Local organizations are inviting guests to learn how Painesville was involved in the movement for women’s voting rights. The Painesville Suffrage Trolley Tour is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

New Delhi: US President Joe Biden Sunday signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act, authorizing the placement of a monument honouring the women’s suffrage movement on the ...

Two historical markers, one related to women’s suffrage and another to African ... “Tire tracks were found near the sign.” Historian Peggy Towns, who worked to get the heritage marker ...

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 ...

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 ...