Rep. Cheney spoke on the Women's Suffrage Movement during her closing remarks Thursday and wore the suffragist white color, a symbolism that Sarah Matthews and Cassidy Hutchinson also adopted.

Sarah Bryner, research director at the Center for Responsive Politics, points out that the wealthy, white women who bankrolled the movement also shaped who was included in the outcome. “So the wives ...

One hundred years ago, supporters of the women’s suffrage movement won a hard-fought, 85-year-long battle. The vote was not “given” to them. Movement activists often became involved at great ...

Rep. Cheney spoke on the Women's Suffrage Movement during her closing remarks Thursday and wore the suffragist white color, a symbolism that Sarah Matthews and Cassidy Hutchinson also adopted.

Black women like Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker and Mary Church Terrell played a major role in the women's suffrage movement. ... Sarah Remond (1826-1887) ...

White women eventually gained suffrage in 1920, but it would be another half-century before all women’s voting rights were protected nationwide with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But the history of the suffrage movement is rife with racism, from demands black women march in the back of a 1913 parade rather than with their state delegations, to Susan B. Anthony stating she ...