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 ...
Pre-registration is required to attend a free screening of ThinkTV's Let Ohio Women Vote, 1 p.m. March 8 at Victoria Theatre.
Which is why, on the 9th, they burned the effigy of Wilson, even though he was out of the country at the Paris Peace Conference. While the NWP, led by Alice Paul, was considered the “militant” ...
BERKS COUNTY (WPVI) -- This year marks an important anniversary in the fight for equality and Berks County resident Hallie Vaughan is making sure the women's suffrage movement gets its due. It was a ...
DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado, women fought for and won that right nearly three decades earlier. Still, the push to secure ...
To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the stories of how women won the right to vote in the United States. To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the ...
Sojourner Truth played a crucial role in championing women’s rights and highlighting the unique challenges Black women ...
In 1916, suffragettes Lucy Burns and Alice Paul were frustrated with the slow progress of American voting rights. Across the Atlantic Ocean, British women were firebombing London and chaining ...
Nashville, Tenn., AUGUST 18, 1920 – Tennessee today became the thirty sixth state to ratify the Susan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. The constitutional change thus will become effective in ...
Waspi women must keep fighting as they owe it to the women who fought so hard for the suffragette movement, as well as those who have died without seeing justice, a campaigner has declared. Rosemary ...