On July 19, 1848, reformers convened in Seneca Falls to demand women’s rights, launching the US women’s suffrage movement.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1919, shortly after Congress passed the 19th Amendment, the Smithsonian acquired a few relics from the nearly century-long struggle for women’s suffrage.. Susan B ...

Today is Women’s Equality Day, which celebrates the passage of the 19 th Amendment that gave women the right to vote on August 26, 1920. However it wasn’t until 1965, when the Voting Rights ...

W hen the woman suffrage movement first began in the mid-19th century, its champions had all become human-rights activists in the searing fires of the abolitionist movement. In 1838, Angelina ...

In honor of Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 26, here's what to know about the women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century. The 19th Amendment was adopted on Aug. 26, 1920 Sign Up for Our ...

Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism Tammy L. Brown, Associate Professor of Black World Studies, History, and Global ... This summer — as the nation celebrates the ...

Theodora Youmans. Born in Ashippun, Youmans was president of the Wisconsin Women’s Suffrage Association and one of the major movers in the effort to get full voting rights for women in the state.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.