“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. Let them throb as one heart unified by...
April Young Bennett talks about how learning history helped her become a better modern activist and what she has learned from some of her historical heroes, such as Francis Ellen Watkins Harper and Sojourner...
Happy birthday to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of many great male feminists from history, born December 22, 1823. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is one of the suffragists featured in the first Ask a Suffragist book,...
Colorado ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 15, 1919. This was the first time in American history that a state voters’ referendum would enfranchise women. Other states followed suit and enfranchised women through successful...
“I have been derisively called a ‘Woman Rights Man.’ I know no such distinction. I claim to be a Human Rights Man; and wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent...
Wyoming Territory was the first to give women the right to vote on Dec. 10, 1869. This newspaper cover shows Wyoming women voting in 1888. At that time, Wyoming women were the only American...
South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 4, 1919.
North Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on December 1, 1919.
She drew crowds so large that a representative proposed “a committee be appointed to examine the foundations of the State House of Massachusetts, to see whether it will bear another lecture from Miss Grimké.”...
“All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.” –Sarah Grimké,...
Nov. 18, 2019 Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists is on sale at Amazon.com! Today only, get your kindle edition copy for only $3.99! As the week goes on, Amazon...
Washington territory was the third territory to enfranchise women, before any state had done so, on November 23, 1883. Unfortunately, the courts invalidated Washington’s suffrage law in 1887. The Washington Territorial Legislature quickly passed...
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