As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized to oppose the 19th Amendment. The anti-suffragists became a nationwide force that would influence later generations of conservative women.

Some of the things you know about suffrage, including the ... It wasn’t until the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women was founded in May 1895 by ...

In the first episode of “The Fight,“ we talked about the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States. The early advocates for suffrage were also abolitionists fighting for ...

A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of ...

Even today, we struggle to understand why it would be the case that women once opposed giving the vote to women. But, at the turn of the 20th century, when some were fighting for their rights, others ...

On Nov. 18, 1910, to be exact, 300 women suffragettes marched to London’s Houses of Parliament to protest British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith’s decision not to sign legislation that ...

Suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst were part of the militant wing of the campaign for votes for women. ... Despite all this the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith still opposed women voting.

In 1912, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, ... with some cast as jurymen utterly opposed to women's suffrage debating with jurymen with more liberal views.

They were generally opposed to women’s suffrage, but so were the saloon owners. So were people in mining towns who believed that women, once given the vote, would pass temperance laws," Balik said.