Here’s a look at key moments in the women’s suffrage movement and the landmark legislation that expanded the opportunity to vote to all women. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the ...
LIMA — As part of its “Art of Domesticity” exhibit, the Allen County Museum hosted a lecture Thursday on the topic of women’s ...
Linda Slaughter remained active in the suffrage movement as well as politics in general. She became the first woman in the country to vote in a political party convention in 1892 as a delegate for ...
Opposition to women having the right to vote was mostly based on tradition and emotion and had nothing to do with reason.
Since the beginning of time, women have traversed the globe looking for adventure, new experiences, and ways to test their ...
In 1908, she founded the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League (WNASL), which met regularly in central London to discuss how to stop votes for women. Ward was already a successful fiction writer.
Duson has worn white in the past, however, for events celebrating women’s suffrage as well as the Equal Rights Amendment, and felt right at home on Thursday in what she called “women’s white.” ...
Women have been a part of the American political scene even before they were able to legally vote. From the middle of the ...
Completed in 1892, Marble House is a 50-room ... After Belmont died in 1908, she became a leader in the women's suffrage movement, funding the National American Woman Suffrage Association and ...
Female Delegates at the DNC Are Wearing White to Honor Women's Suffrage on Night of Harris' Speech CHICAGO (AP) — If you think you're seeing a lot of women wearing white during the final night ...
Whanganui Regional Museum and Women’s Network Whanganui will collaborate to deliver a week of special events commemorating Suffrage Day. On Tuesday 17th September, Museum Director, Dr Bronwyn ...
Today, all American citizens are eligible to vote irrespective of race and gender, but that hasn’t always been the case.