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The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the ...
Women’s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century.
Women’s suffrage - US History, 19th Amendment, Voting Rights: From the founding of the United States, women were almost universally excluded from voting. Only when women began to chafe at this restriction, however, was their exclusion made explicit.
Learning Resources on Women's Political Participation; Voting Resources; Crusade for the Vote; Suffragist Biographies; Determined to Rise; Learning Resources on Women's Political Participation; Voting Resources; America at 250; American Women Quarters™ Program; Glass Ceiling Breaker; Request a Speaker. NWHM Speakers Bureau; Women's History ...
Beginning in the mid-19th century, woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered radical change. First introduced in Congress in 1878, a woman suffrage amendment was continuously proposed for the next 41 years until it passed both houses of Congress in ...
The women's rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
The 19th Amendment guaranteed women’s right to vote, but the women who fought for decades for that right are often overlooked by history. Here are their stories.
A comprehensive history of the U.S. woman's suffrage movement from it's 18th-century origins through the passage of the 19th amendment. The site contains articles, primary sources, and educational materials for students and teachers.
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century...
Timeline showing how the push for equal voting rights for women originated and grew in the United States and how the movement eventually came to fruition with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the U.S. Constitution, which ensured that American women are enfranchised on an equal basis with men.