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Some of the things you know about suffrage, including the inclusivity of the movement, need to change. Over time, rumor can turn into legend.
The suffrage movement made it abundantly clear, that women as a collective can bring about real, meaningful change in our world.
She was described, in Syracuse newspaper accounts of her time, as “the well-known advocate of women’s suffrage.” And then Matilda Joslyn Gage disappeared into a puff of historical smoke.
While Black Hoosier women played an important part in the women's suffrage movement in Indiana and the United States, their legacy is often forgotten.
How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus.
How Indian women contributed to the suffrage movement Historian Sumita Mukherjee on the contribution of South Asian women to British women’s suffrage battle 100 years ago.
The women always lived together, but on June 29, 1934, Hannah V. Lyles-Dorsey Caldwell died. She was the daughter of the late Reverend Richard H. Lyles and Mary Elizabeth Beckley.
After Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke in Hebron, 35 charter members organized the first women’s suffrage association in Nebraska.
Comparing the three women representatives in the Third Arizona Legislature, one newspaper described Pauline O’Neill as the “leader in the suffrage campaign,” while claiming Rosa McKay was ...
Before women got the right to vote in 1920, they sold cookbooks like ‘The Woman Suffrage Cook Book’ to raise money for their cause.
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