In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

She Resisted explores the final decade of the women’s suffrage movement through its most powerful images, brought to life with color for the first time. Live through the epic 1913 Washington ...

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, ...

Senate committee recommends granting votes to women WASHINGTON, June 13, 1913 (UP) - The Senate Woman's Suffrage Committee to-day recommended to the Senate passage of the Chamberlain resolution ...

Early suffrage activists worked by legal means, holding meetings, petitioning MPs and conducting letter writing campaigns. Their tactics were genteel as befitted the image of women in society.

The exhibition showcases a number of photos including a newspaper image ... of the Portsmouth branch of The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), which was originally featured ...

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 ...

Senate committee recommends granting votes to women WASHINGTON, June 13, 1913 (UP) - The Senate Woman's Suffrage Committee to-day recommended to the Senate passage of the Chamberlain resolution ...

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.