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The Long Road to Suffrage
The first women's rights meeting in the United States, held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, itself followed several decades of a quietly-emerging ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa022299.htm
Women's Suffrage - What You Need to Know About Women's Suffrage
Women's suffrage - articles, biographies, timelines, original documents, pictures, and more information on the long struggle to win the vote for women.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage/a/suffrage.htm
August 26, 1920 - Women's Suffrage Victory - Nineteenth Amendment ...
The end of the long battle: the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in August, 1920, granted women the right to vote in all United States elections.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments - Women's Rights Convention ...
The text of the 1848 Women's Rights Declaration of Sentiments proclaimed at Seneca Falls, part of an extensive collection of articles about woman suffrage ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1848/a/seneca_declartn.htm
Florence Nightingale on Women's Rights
An excerpt from Florence Nightingale's writing, as she addresses the issue of women's rights.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nightingale/a/fn_womens_right.htm
Women's Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
A history of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, as it has been applied to women's rights.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/laws/a/equal_protect.htm
Married Women's Property Act | 1848 | New York State
It was amended to include even more rights in 1860; later, married women's rights to control property were extended still more. ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/marriedwomensproperty/a/property_1848ny.htm
Mary Wollstonecraft - Rights in the Air - A Vindication of the ...
Rights in the Air: the context of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman An article by Jone Johnson Lewis, Women's History Guide ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa083099.htm
Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad Conductor, Abolitionist ...
Harriet Tubman - From Slavery to Freedom. Underground Railroad Conductor, Abolitionist, Women's Rights. By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/harriettubman/a/tubman_moses.htm
Are Women Fit for Political Rights? - Woman and Her Wishes - 1853 ...
An argument about women's role in political life, from an essay written in 1853 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the Massachusetts Constitional Convention, ...
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_twh_woman_wishes_15.htm
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