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 ...
"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things," Lucy Stone, Original ...
Ohio will unveil a Women's Monument on the Statehouse grounds in 2026 to honor the state's role in the suffrage movement and ...
Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...
A team of Welsh seamstresses have made 264 sashes for every woman MP to mark 97 years since women were given the right to vote. The group, based in Newport, call themselves Lucy and the Sashmeisters, ...
A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...
“The old stiff minds must give way. The old selfish minds must go. Obstructive reactionaries must move on. The young are at the gates!” Lavinia Dock, a nurse and feminist activist, wrote in The ...
Suffragette is a historical movie set in early 20th-century Britain. It follows the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and their struggle for women’s suffrage. The movement was led by British ...
On the morning of July 5, 1857, an eclectic group of tenants bustle about their Manhattan boarding house, arranging the final details of a clever scheme they hope to pull off in the name of the ...
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