News
Ask a Suffragist Books
About the series:
Ask a Suffragist Book Series
About the first book:
America's First Feminists
Coming Soon:
Activists Who Built a Movement
Be the first to know when new books are available!
Join our email list.
Buy it now!
About the Author

April Young Bennett began studying the suffrage movement to inform her own activism.
Learn more about April.
Book April as a motivational speaker for your event.
Photos
-
Women in Lit: Julia Ward Howe #19forthe19th
28 Sep, 2019
-
Women at Work: Mary Ann Shadd Cary
5 Oct, 2019
More
Commemorative Calendar
- January 4, 2021
-
-
Utah gained statehood, with full voting rights for women in its constitution, on this day in 1896.
-
- January 6, 2021
-
-
Kentucky & Rhode Island ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- January 13, 2021
-
-
Ernestine Polowsky Rose was born on this day in 1810.
-
Oregon ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- January 15, 2021
-
-
Abby Kelley Foster was born on this day in 1811.
-
- January 16, 2021
-
-
Indiana ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- January 18, 2021
-
-
After courts overruled Washington territory's 1883 women's suffrage law, Washington gave women the right to vote again on this day in 1888. Unfortunately, it was also overruled by the courts shortly thereafter.
-
- January 27, 2021
-
-
Wyoming ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- February 1, 2021
-
-
Charles Lenox Remond was born on this day in 1810.
-
February is Black History Month
-
Harriet Forten Purvis was born on this day in 1810.
-
- February 3, 2021
-
-
Elizabeth Blackwell was born on this day in 1821.
-
- February 7, 2021
-
-
Nevada ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- February 8, 2021
-
-
It was already law, but Vermont showed its support by ratifying the 19th Amendment on this day in 1921.
-
- February 9, 2021
-
-
New Jersey ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- February 11, 2021
-
-
Idaho ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
- February 12, 2021
-
-
Arizona ratified the 19th Amendment on this day in 1920.
-
Utah territory gave women the right to vote on this day in 1870.
-
- February 14, 2021
-
-
Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818.
-
On this day in 1870, Utah territory held the first American election with equal voting rights for women since New Jersey rescinded women's suffrage in 1807.
-
Join the Centennial Celebration
Join our email list to receive your FREE Illustrated Companion for your book club or activist organization and social media shareables honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and the milestones along the way.
Recent Email Newsletters
- Indiana ratified the 19th Amendment on January 16, 1920. January 11, 2021
- Utah became a state, the 3rd with votes for women, on January 4, 1896. January 4, 2021
- “Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it cannot appreciate it.” –Lucretia Mott, 1849 December 28, 2020
- “Let the hearts of the women of the world respond to the song of the herald angels of peace on earth and good will to men.” -Frances Ellen Watkins December 21, 2020
- Colorado ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 15, 1919. December 14, 2020