In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s ...

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 ...

Because — for the most part — it was not,” said Cathleen Cahill, historian and author of the book “Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement.” ...

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

Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...

A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law.

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

Saturday’s demonstration will promote themes related to feminism, racial justice, anti-militarization and other issues.

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

DURING the 19th century, women were increasingly involved in a wide range of activities which gave them a valuable experience of public life. Their enthusiasm and efficiency in organising themselves ...