Women's Suffrage

The campaign for a woman's right to vote in the United States took nearly one hundred years and a lot of hard work by dedicated activists known as suffragists. Find articles and other resources for understanding the history of women's suffrage and the passing of the 19th amendment.

Declaration of Sentiments Word Cloud

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments: Women's Rights Convention 1848

Women's Suffrage Timeline State by State

Why Women Should Vote

Seneca Falls Report - from The Recorder, August 3, 1848 - Syracuse

A History of the Seneca Falls 1848 Women's Rights Convention

Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker holding a banner representing the National Woman Suffrage Association

National Woman Suffrage Association

Inez Milholland Boissevain at NAWSA parade

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Men in Front of Antisuffrage Headquarters, ca. 1915

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

Lucretia Mott

American Equal Rights Association

World Woman Suffrage Map 1908

International Women's Suffrage Timeline: 1851-Present

Harriot Stanton Blatch and New York suffragettes putting up posters announcing a forthcoming lecture by Sylvia Pankhurst

Women's Suffrage Timeline

Cartoon satirizing Women's Rights Convention 1859

National Woman's Rights Conventions

Miss Margaret Newburgh of South St. Paul, the first woman to vote

First Woman to Vote Under the 19th Amendment

Women voting

First Woman to Vote - Claimants

Alice Paul unfurls 36-star victory banner, August 18, 1920

Women's Suffrage Victory: August 26, 1920

Report on Seneca Falls - North Star, July 1848

Seneca Falls Resolutions: Women's Rights Demands in 1848

Sylvia Pankhurst, about 1909

Sylvia Pankhurst

Lucy Stone

American Woman Suffrage Association

W.E.B. Du Bois, about 1918

W.E.B. Du Bois on Woman Suffrage

A London suffragette prisoner being force-fed, 1910

Brutal Treatment of Women Suffragists at Occoquan Workhouse

Poster advertising the Suffragette newspaper, 1912. Artist: Hilda Dallas

Suffragette Defined

Suffrage March 1912

A Guide to Women's Suffrage

Black and white image of two elderly women sitting at a desk with books and papers

Seneca Falls Convention

Christabel Pankhurst Sitting at Her Desk

Christabel Pankhurst

Literary Suffragettes 1913

Women's Suffrage Quiz

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