The United States is a democracy, meaning all citizens, with the exception of children and some felons, have the right to vote. The SAVE Act would make it significantly harder for married women, as ...

After the United States entered the war ... Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.

How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement.” “The story doesn’t end in 1920,” Cahill said. Lee came to the United States when she was around 8 with her mother. They reunited with ...

Ida Porter Boyer, a Schuylkill County woman who played a leading role in the women’s suffrage movement, is on track to being ...

considered to be the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. “Strange as it may seem to many, we now demand our right to vote according to the declaration of the ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument ... It was on display in the United States Capitol for one day — and then banished to a service closet under the Rotunda for the next 75 years.

After last November’s elections, a headline in the Star Tribune read, “After nearly a century, ERA might finally pass.” The Equal Rights Amendment simply states, “Equality of rights under ...

A pamphlet of collected quotes from eminent figures who were in favor of woman suffrage, such as Abraham Lincoln and Jane Addams. This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Hankey ...

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 ...

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 ...