In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

The right to vote, insisted some women, would undermine their efforts to promote the public good Amanda B. Moniz The trouble began soon after well-known social reformer Emily Bissell had finished her ...

Nineteen-twelve was when Theodore Roosevelt came out for women's suffrage and became the great champion of women's rights. And I think one of the least understood, but more important aspects, of ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Women’s History Month with a postcard from the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade. On March 3, 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote ...

Addams, Jane (1860-1935) -- African American Women and Suffrage -- Alpha Suffrage Club -- American Association of University Women (AAUW) -- American Equal Rights Association -- American Woman ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. My first exposure to the women’s suffrage movement was through the character of Mrs. Banks in the movie Mary Poppins. Mrs. Banks makes her grand entrance ...

To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the stories of how women won the right to vote in the United States. To mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we’re revisiting the ...

A group of Women's Suffrage activists march in a parade carrying a banner reading 'I Wish Ma Could Vote' circa 1913. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images) “Look at the direction we've come from ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville group is hoping to bring a women's suffrage museum to downtown in the next few years. It's meant to highlight the role the state and the people living in east Tennessee ...

On May 21, 1914, Reno women formed a group opposed to granting women the right to vote. That fall, rural support won Nevada women the right to vote.