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When lesbians led the women’s suffrage movement

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 ...
PBS

Temperance & Suffrage

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...
WUSA

100 years after women won the right to vote, suffrage battles continue

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — One hundred years ago this week, American women won the guaranteed right to vote. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the ...
Case Western Reserve University

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. Cleveland and northeast Ohio played an important role in the long struggle for women’s rights and the passing of the 19th Amendment. Cleveland was a center for the ABOLITIONIST ...
Foreign Affairs

Women’s Suffrage and the Democratic Peace

This week, the United States will celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920, and certified as part of the Constitution on August 26, 1920, granted ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Women Senators Reflect on the 100th Anniversary of Suffrage

When suffragist Jeannette Rankin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1916, she made a prescient prediction: “I may be the first woman member of Congress. But I won’t be the ...
NBC News

Women's suffrage myths and the lesser known women suffragists

This year marks 100 years since the passage of the 19th amendment, which sought to guarantee all American women the right to vote. Many Americans believe they know the full story of American suffrage ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: Women have been voting for 100 years — as long as it took to win the war for suffrage

After a world war which President Woodrow Wilson had pledged would make the world “safe for democracy,” most American women still didn’t have democracy in the voting booth. One hundred years ago, the ...
The New York Times

THE QUESTION OF SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH.; What is Suffrage? What is Citizenship? Their Application to Women, Negroes and Children Who Hold Power in the South To be Reorganized by ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
PBS

From Suffrage to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Little-Known Club Movement that Changed a Country

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 ...
The New York Times

Join the Final Drive to Suffrage

Our game lets you follow the 19th Amendment’s journey from passage in the Senate to ratification by 36 states. By Jennifer Harlan On June 4, 1919, the Susan B. Anthony Amendment came before the Senate ...