A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary conversations about women’s suffrage.

As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized to oppose the 19th Amendment. The anti-suffragists became a nationwide force that would influence later generations of conservative women.

The suffragists were led by Millicent Fawcett, head of the National Union for Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). It was founded in 1897 but merged with other organisations that dated back to ...

On Aug. 26, 2020, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Let’s make this the decade we create the conditions that bring true equality.

Anti-suffrage women had been a political force since at least the late 1860s, when word that Massachusetts might extend the vote to women led 200 women to petition against giving themselves the ...

1913: Women in Illinois were successful in gaining partial suffrage. They became the first women east of the Mississippi ...

Mary Poppins came out in 1964, long after women got the right to vote both in the U.K. and the U.S., but Mrs. Banks embodies many of the Victorian arguments against women’s suffrage (and ...

Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine has joined female MPs from across the political spectrum to mark the 97th anniversary of ...

The Iatrian Suffrage Debate. Beginning in December 1911 to March 1912, a series of opinion pieces about suffrage were published in the Iatrian, the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania's student ...

A large amount of suffrage resources were devoted to Delaware, and the governor, John Townsend, was supportive of women’s suffrage, as were other politicians in the state. Yet despite decades of ...

Wolfe started “Her Story” just as the anniversary of suffrage was coming up – a time that coincided with the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. “That was a strange parallel,” she recalled.

Nichols's suffrage bill, along with over 70 others, failed to pass the Mississippi Legislature due to political infighting. Around 68,000 Mississippians, mostly Black, are disenfranchised due to ...