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Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
This exhibit chronicles the ebb and flow of voting rights in America, from the Founding Era to the current day.
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Reconstruction
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Women's Suffrage
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Women's Suffrage
Women's Suffrage
Women's Suffrage @100
We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.
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Linda Gordon
The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage
A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.
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Casey N. Cep
How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women
As the U.S. celebrates the centennial of the 19th Amendment, it’s vital to remember that some of its heroes were less than heroic.
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Brent Staples
When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy
African-American women were written out of the history of the woman suffrage movement.
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Brent Staples
The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage
The “Anthony Amendment” was introduced with no luck for 41 years. And even then, it wasn’t for everyone.
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Eleri Harris
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Ellen T. Crenshaw
The ‘Undesirable Militants’ Behind the Nineteenth Amendment
A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.
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Adrienne LaFrance
How the Kim Kardashians of Yesteryear Helped Women Get the Vote
Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.
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Johanna Neuman
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Helaine Olen
100 Years of Voting Hasn’t Done What We Thought It Would
The unfinished business of the women’s vote.
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Gail Collins
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women
It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.
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Martha S. Jones
Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote
A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
She Asked President Woodrow Wilson For 22 Suffrage "Favors." She Got 21.
Wilson became a great supporter of the 19th Amendment, but only because he worked alongside a woman who spoke his language.
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Kimberly A. Hamlin
Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)
A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.
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Melissa McCarthy
The Week Women’s Suffrage Almost Wasn’t
Opponents unleashed chaos to try to sabotage the expansion of voting rights. The strange interlude still holds lessons in how backlash works today.
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Elaine Weiss
Suffrage at 100: A Visual History
How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus.
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Jennifer Schuessler
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Veronica Chambers
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Jennifer Harlan
New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
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Jessica Kirzane
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Miriam Karpilove
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The 19th Amendment Was a Crucial Achievement. But it Wasn’t Enough to Liberate Women.
It’s time to fight for the original and heretofore unachieved goals of the women’s movement.
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Holly Jackson
The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment
A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
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Ellen Carol DuBois
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Lila Thulin
How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All
A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.
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Martha S. Jones
How the Spanish Flu Almost Upended Women's Suffrage
Canceled rallies. A looming election. A stretched health care system with a predominantly female face. Women’s frustrations then resonate loud and clear today.
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Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Suffrage in Spanish
Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.
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Cathleen D. Cahill
Civil Rights Movement
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Voting Rights Today
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