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 Statue of Liberty was officially revealed to the world Oct. 28, 1886, in New York City's harbor, which affirmed the ...

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 ...

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A legendary woman You most likely remember Susan B. Anthony for the strides she made for women’s rights in the United States, ...

In 1872 women were not allowed to vote, but the social reformer and women’s rights activist broke the law to do so.

A better, more comprehensive way to explain the outcome is to conceptualize 2024 as the second pandemic election. Trump’s ...

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 ...

In one anti-suffrage postcard from the time ... Smartly, those in the women’s rights movements reclaimed cats as symbols of ...

Somalia's government and federal member states said Wednesday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2025. The agreement signed by Prime Minister ...

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 ...