The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks. By Jennifer Schuessler The end of a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the women's suffrage movement. These women staged headline-grabbing stunts ...

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.

City police stood by, refusing to intervene. Presidents have to maneuver carefully on politically hot issues, and women's suffrage was no exception. The movement had been growing for decades.