Woman suffrage

I can't remember how it happened, but last spring in a discussion on Facebook, a decision was made to host a Suffragette Tea. I know I was beginning to research the Hello Girls for the Centennial of the WWI armistice and somehow, this being an election year, it just seemed the thing to do! 1918 was a big year in the Women's Suffrage movement. In 1918, President Wilson switched his stand on women’s voting rights from objection to support . Wilson partially tied the proposed suffrage amendment…

Suffrage women are hauled off to jail.

How many suffragettes were there? There were thousands of suffragettes spread across the world. In Pennsylvania alone there were around five thousand, while in other parts of the world there were well over that. The amount of supporters of the Women's Suffrage movement was large.

Suffragettes selling 'The Suffragette' newspaper. July 1914

To coincide with the nationwide release of the film Suffragette, the official watchlist containing details of over 1,300 suffragette arrests has been published online by Ancestry, in association with The National Archives. Digitised from the original record held at The National Archives in Kew, the online collection – England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 – lists the names […]

The fascinating photographs depict the inspired tactics used by the British and American suffrage movement during this time, such as hunger strikes and demonstrations.

Is there a 'hidden history' of black and ethnic minority women in the British women's suffrage campaign?

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A century after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists had to fight so hard, and who was fighting against them, Casey Cep writes.

Suffragette Photos Pictures and Photos - Getty Images

For this year's International Women's Day, TIME commissioned photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize images from the suffrage movement.

Suffrage movement sashes. Really ...

An enterprising housewife taught herself to use a camera and won the admiration of Queen Mary. Lucy Davies unearths the forgotten work of Christina Broom

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The newspaper article depicts the negativity that was given to women suffragists as they gave parades to protest. In the film, "Iron Jawed Angels", it showed that riots occurred during these parades in malice against suffragists. This article proved my question with the danger that happened in these events.

Around 4,500 women's suffrage-themed postcards were produced in the US and UK between 1890 and 1915, a time that also just so happened to coincide with ...