The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...
Many African American women could not vote unimpeded until the passage of ... History Merch & Suffrage National Museum of American History Pen used to sign the Woman Suffrage Joint Resolution, 1919 ...
“Yesterday, I was proud to sign into law the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act, authorizing the placement of a monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement on the National ...
Garrisonian women did not necessarily oppose woman suffrage, but they emphasized instead the right of women to gain equal access to education and employment; equality within marriage, the family ...
They carried signs intended to challenge and embarrass ... Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing ...
The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political parties in post-World War I Britain Eli Wizevich Rebecca Felton was sworn ...
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 ...
They could not keep their own property and money. How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of ...