When we talk about the fight for women's voting rights, some names get left out of history books. Black women played a ...

Members of the women's suffrage movement prepare to march on New York's Wall Street in 1913, armed with leaflets and slogans demanding the vote for women.

Suffragists such as Alice Paul — a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and founder of the National Woman’s Party — realized that by staging public spectacles ...

Suffragists were tired of asking politely and tired of waiting. What began as the 16th Amendment became the 17th. As more time passed without ratification, the 18th.

The arguments echoed those that had been made for decades: the pro-suffragists insisted women’s vote would improve the lives of women and children and fulfill the American promise of self ...

Votes for women: How the suffragists won 07:28. Last Tuesday, with banners, bells, streamers and skydives, Nashville celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment ...

Why suffragists wore white, and more feminist symbols decoded. From bluebirds and cats to pins shaped like jail cells, early 20th-century activists used visual cues to advocate for women’s right ...

"The Suffragists" looks at the impact on society, from women running for office (in 1920, we learn, Yoncalla's City Council was all female) to supporting laws and regulations addressing social ...

Whiting has followed in her ancestor's footsteps by chairing the board of the National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C. There, she tries to educate the public about the women who were ...

In the early 1900s, local suffragists often met at Page’s Danvers Square home, and she represented the town at annual meetings of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.

A spirited musical about suffragists is not a triumph, but much improved. Hillary Clinton is one of the producers of Broadway’s ‘Suffs,’ which was plagued by covid in its premiere two years ago ...