Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ... the landmark 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights found it hard to get their heads around it.

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

Local organizations are inviting guests to learn how Painesville was involved in the movement for women’s voting rights. The ...

They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement. My research suggests that the personal lives of these suffrage leaders shaped their political agendas. Rather than emphasizing ...

DuBois has always had a keen interest in politics and suffrage was the "premier feminist movement of the ... War suffrage and minority rights movements. She is about to publish another book examining ...

To be a free people, nothing is more fundamental than our right to vote. Women in America had to fight for that right until 1920. Now, 105 years later, Congress is attacking it, especially in ...

The homage is a couture callback to other momentous political events in which women wearing white has played a role, ...

Anthony Day in February. Hawley visited to note Western New York’s long history in the women’s suffrage movement, including one of his relatives, Ella Hawley Crossett.

Moira Mulholland narrates the history of (European) women's rights through images, interviews, and performances focusing in on the Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada.

which has its roots in the suffrage movement. The Women's Library also holds the papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett and of the Fawcett Society. Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a suffragist and women's ...

A sign on the Lake Erie College Women’s Rights Walkway recognizes the ... includes signs recognizing milestones in the movement for women’s suffrage and activists with ties to Northeast ...