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Drawing Idea 3: A timeline-style drawing showing the progress of women’s rights, from past struggles to present-day ...
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 ...
that half a century later we would be compelled to leave the finish of the battle to another generation of women.” Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ...
Local organizations are inviting guests to learn how Painesville was involved in the movement for women’s voting rights. The Painesville Suffrage Trolley Tour is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...
Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the right to vote. In 1897, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was formed to bring these groups together.
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.
Today marks the 89th anniversary of the 19th Amendment going into effect (which, oddly, doesn't get an artistic rendering from Google). In a few short weeks, as part of the Institute for Women's ...
Women around the country set up Women's Suffrage Groups to campaign for the right to vote. In 1897, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies was formed to bring these groups together.