Suffragists found this symbolism ironic, because they has so few freedoms that men enjoyed. #womenshistory #suffrage100 #suffragecentennial suffrage via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CCdiPlBhkVY/
Tennessee, the last state needed, ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, making votes for women a constitutional right . While the constitution now affirmed the right of women to vote, it would...
“It is because I have this quiet faith in the certain triumph of the right, that I am entirely undisturbed by anything which venom and ill nature can do.” -Lucy Stone, 1869 Lucy Stone...
Sojourner Truth‘s face is one of the first you see at the Votes for Women tour at the United States Capitol. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CDjiZfxBXzz/ Sojourner Truth is one of the suffragists featured in the...
On August 6th, 1965, the promise of the Nineteenth Amendment finally became a reality for women of color who had been disfranchised by discriminatory voting laws.
Wyoming gained statehood, becoming the first state with equal voting rights for women, on July 10, 1890. Women in Wyoming Territory had already had voting rights since 1869.
In this clip, from the Next Level Leadership Women’s Program of the American Gas Association in Washington DC just prior to the COVID-19 crisis, April Young Bennett talks to business leaders about how they...
In the Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton expanded the vision of the founding fathers, declaring that all men and...
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