Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified ...

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

Long before women gained the right to vote nationwide in 1920, Black women in the Pacific Northwest were already working to shape political life—organizing clubs, building party networks, and ...

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for a parade of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she learned that white organizers wanted Black women to march at the back so as not ...

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.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Newport Beach’s Christopher Cox has a long history in national politics, becoming the fifth-ranking leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, chair of the U.S. Securities and ...

The sacred right to the elective franchise, 1848-1861 -- Now let us try universal suffrage, 1861-1869 -- Are women persons? : 1869-1875 -- The great primitive right from which all freedom originates, ...