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When Feminism Was ‘Sexist’—and Anti-Suffrage
The women who opposed their own enfranchisement in the Victorian era have little in common with the “Repeal the 19th” fringe of today.
by
Mary Harrington
via
The American Conservative
on
April 15, 2024
The Revolutionary Chinese Suffragette Who Challenged America’s Politics
The story of Mabel Ping‑Hua Lee.
by
Mattie Kahn
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Literary Hub
on
June 22, 2023
Intellectual, Suffragist and Pathbreaking Federal Employee: Helen Hamilton Gardener
Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.
by
Allison S. Finkelstein
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Arlington National Cemetery
on
April 13, 2023
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša): Advocate for the "Indian Vote"
The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.
by
Cathleen D. Cahill
via
National Park Service
on
December 14, 2020
Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)
A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.
by
Melissa McCarthy
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The Public Domain Review
on
October 27, 2020
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.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 26, 2020
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Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’
More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.
by
Allison K. Lange
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Made by History
on
August 25, 2020
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.
by
Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
on
July 1, 2019
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.
by
Adrienne LaFrance
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The Atlantic
on
June 4, 2019
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.
by
Jessica Kirzane
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Miriam Karpilove
via
Jewish Currents
on
June 4, 2019
Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote
On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle.
by
Susan Ware
via
Literary Hub
on
May 13, 2019
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.
via
Massachusetts Historical Society
on
April 26, 2019
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.
by
Martha S. Jones
via
Smithsonian
on
March 8, 2019
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.
by
Eleri Harris
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Ellen T. Crenshaw
via
The Nib
on
March 8, 2019
How Tea Helped Women Sell Suffrage
Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Today’s activists might learn from their model.
by
Janelle Peters
via
The Atlantic
on
September 30, 2018
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.
by
Johanna Neuman
,
Helaine Olen
via
The Atlantic
on
December 12, 2017
Women's Suffrage @100
We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.
by
Linda Gordon
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Public Books
on
September 22, 2017
Lydia Maria Child and the Vexed Role of the Woman Abolitionist
Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.
by
Lydia Moland
via
Aeon
on
March 27, 2023
Why the 1850 Worcester Women's Rights Convention Is a Vital Part of History
Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?
by
Ben Railton
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
March 1, 2023
The Feminist of Oz
Learn more about the story of Matilda Gage, whose writings inspired the witches in "The Wizard of Oz."
by
Anna K. Danziger Halperin
via
New-York Historical Society
on
March 1, 2023
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