The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement. My research suggests that the personal lives of these suffrage leaders shaped their political agendas. Rather than emphasizing ...

However, if the parliamentary vote remained the elusive holy-grail for suffragists in the United Kingdom in 1913, they had still achieved many rights for women since 1867. Crucially, the suffrage ...

Many women supporters of women's rights directed their political activism into the abolitionist movement. Speaking out publicly against injustice, publishing and editing newspapers, and helping ...

Women had very few rights in the eyes of the law and they ... Race also played a part in women’s experiences of the suffrage movement. The suffragettes were mostly made up of white women but ...

The women’s national suffrage movement is traditionally recognized ... summit as part of the movement to ensure women’s voting rights in the United States. This included many forms of ...

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While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right ...

which has its roots in the suffrage movement. The Women's Library also holds the papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett and of the Fawcett Society. Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a suffragist and women's ...