In the first episode of “The Fight,“ we talked about the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States. The early advocates for suffrage were also abolitionists fighting for ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

One hundred years ago today, women in the United States won the right to vote. It was just a few sentences. But the ratification to the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, made it clear that, “t… ...

A car full of suffragettes advertises a talk on the Women’s Suffrage Movement by famous women’s rights activist Jane Addams and others at Carnegie Hall in New York on Feb. 9, 1913.

These 20 Black women fought for voting rights. In 1913, during the Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., Black participants were even told to walk at the end of the parade, segregated ...

Persistence is key. Women won the right to vote as the result of decades-long struggle. The demand for women’s suffrage was first made in 1848, in a small town in Upstate New York, at a time ...

The Women’s Suffrage Movement Included More Than Two Women and So Should the Monuments ... It took another 45 years before Black women could vote as a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Equal pay and reproductive rights were deeply entrenched in the women’s suffrage movement. The discussion about women’s equal pay, for example, goes back to at least 1850.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Delta Sigma Theta sisters and several supports are honoring those who fought for women’s suffrage and march the River City streets to commemorate the movement. From ...

WORCESTER — The city has seen a lot of history in its 300 years, but one of the highlights over this period would be the start of the women’s suffrage movement, with the first national woman's ...

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

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