Pennsylvania was one of the states that hadn’t ratified the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would prohibit states from denying citizens the right to vote because of ...

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 ...

Buffalo and Western New York played an active role during the decades-long women's suffrage movement that, eventually, led to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First Lady Michelle Obama affirms that “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A new monument is in the works for the National Mall. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed a law allowing the Women's Suffrage National Monument to be built. The bill was first ...

Circa 1880s portrait of Hallie Quinn Brown, African-American educator, writer and activist. Staff Writer The 19th Amendment, ratified a century ago on Aug. 18, 1920, is often hailed for granting ...