Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story. Horse-drawn floats, trumpeters, banners, and thousands of marchers.

She entered Barnard College, soon after the suffrage parade. While at Barnard, Lee continued her advocacy for women. Bathed in the campus atmosphere of first-wave feminism, she grew more ...

The day before Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration, on March 3, 1913, Paul organized a women's suffrage parade of more than 5,000 participants from every state in the Union. The festivities drew ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

D.C. to march in the national suffrage parade. But Wells was met with hostility and asked to march in the back. She resisted, boldly marching alongside the white women in the parade.