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 ...

It was the culmination of a century of agitation for women’s suffrage. Beginning in the 1840s, women organized in a concerted effort to gain the vote. Their goal seemed almost impossible ...

Nineteen-twelve was when Theodore Roosevelt came out for women's suffrage and became the great champion of women's rights. And I think one of the least understood, but more important aspects ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

A convention in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, sparked a 72-year-long, persistent national movement. Various women ...

In 1917, when Theodora Sprecher Marsh showed up at House of Representatives as the representative from Santa Cruz County, she ...

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.

Titled "Resistance," a new exhibition curated by filmmaker Steve McQueen examines 100 years of struggles against the status quo, from women's suffrage to the war in Iraq Eli Wizevich The ...

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 ...