The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the suffrage movement. This collection includes personal papers of suffragists and suffragettes, records ...

Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s, when married women still had no right ... Rebecca Boggs Roberts writes in her book Suffragists in Washington, D.C ...

to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement and to provide a resource for newly-enfranchised women to take their part in public life. The deposit of books and archives in the early ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members of local ... women’s political activism in German and Britain. Her books include "Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work ...

Marie Bostwick was casually chatting about books with her mother when Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” came up.

A comprehensive new book, Elaine Weiss’ The Woman’s Hour ... What does conventional wisdom get wrong about the suffrage movement? This was a much more complicated story than we've been ...

A contributing cartoonist for The New Yorker has penned a new book that chronicles the suffrage movement's triumphs ... Song" ...

Many women supporters of women's rights directed their political activism into the abolitionist movement. Speaking out publicly against injustice, publishing and editing newspapers, and helping ...

Women in Broome County were prominent leaders of the Suffrage Movement and the push for the 19th Amendment. “Margaret Topliff, Lillian Huffcut, Cathrine Bartoo, Ida Wales Gitchel and they all ...

Continuing to be active in the suffrage movement, she was elected president of the Nogales League of Women Voters in 1922 ... several historical nonfiction books about the early people of the ...