and throws light on the role of party politics in the battle for the federal suffrage amendment.' Kira Sanbonmatsu, Senior Scholar, Center for American Women and Politics, and Professor of Political ...

Stone and Blackwell formed a rival organization—the American Woman Suffrage Association—that included men as well as women and advocated a state-by-state campaign for female enfranchisement.

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

Alice Paul was a pioneering American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist who played a crucial role in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. Paul dedicated her life to ...

toured America in 1831 and wrote the classic “Democracy in America.” He held that universal suffrage might not be a guarantor ...

through an expansive slate of programming — including American Experience’s The Vote. In order to find and explore our own local history in the campaign for women’s suffrage, we decided to take a trek ...

Parallel to the American movement, the suffrage movement in the UK gained traction under the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union. The British suffragettes ...

Civil War in America - and in Britain, the long steady struggle to widen the suffrage. This programme's suffragette coin stands for all those - not only in Britain but across the world - who ...