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 ...
A new exhibition at Kensington Palace tells the riveting story of Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of the last maharaja of the Sikh Empire ...
This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...
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.
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 ...
Cincinnati's Mercantile Library is trying to solve a mystery involving stained glass, women's suffrage and a church in small-town Indiana.
In The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Dr. Rabaka lifts up the intertwined histories of women’s rights, abolitionism, racial justice, and democratic reform. This episode serves as a companion to Episode 23 ...
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 ...
Narrator: Through the 19th century, the electoral system went through many changes, but one constant remained. Women were not allowed to vote in national elections. In 1867, when Parliament was ...
A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law. The yet-to-be-built ...
Local developer Tim Hill, Hatcher-Hill Properties co-founder and president, gave $500,000 to help the planned Women's Suffrage Museum acquire another Gay Street building. That building is under ...