In the early centuries, women partaking in any decision-making was only a fiction. This is displayed in the long years it took to fight for women's suffrage. This experience can now be referred to in ...
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 ...
DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado, women fought for and won that right nearly three decades earlier. Still, the push to secure ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- With Friday being the voting registration deadline in North Carolina, the League of Women Voters (LWV) is urging North Carolinians to ensure they're registered to vote. "It was ...
The League of Women Voters of the Helena Area (LWVHA) is pleased to announce “Suffrage Timeline,” a 45-minute interactive presentation which takes the audience through our country’s voting rights ...
In The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Dr. Rabaka lifts up the intertwined histories of women’s rights, abolitionism, racial justice, and democratic reform. This episode serves as a companion to Episode 23 ...
Jenn Colella as Carrie Chapman Catt (center) in Suffs, a new Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement Joan Marcus In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was ...
A new national monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement has been approved for the National Mall, marking the first ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter was published Nov. 7, 2025, at KnoxNews.com. It garnered a number of responses, which can be read below this one. Women's suffrage has been an unmitigated disaster ...
Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. My first exposure to the women’s suffrage movement was through the character of Mrs. Banks in the movie Mary Poppins. Mrs. Banks makes her grand entrance ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A memorial in downtown Knoxville that honors the suffragists who campaigned for the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was decorated Friday.