Suffragists - Women Who Worked for the Vote
Women who worked for the vote for women, whether called woman suffragists, women's suffrage advocates, or suffragettes. Includes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt -- but also some lesser-known women like Lucy Stone and Lucy Burns.
Women's Suffrage Biographies
Included here: key biographies of women who worked for women's right to vote. Note: while the media, especially in Britain, called many of these women suffragettes, the more correct term historically is suffragists. And while the struggle for the right of women to vote is Women's Suffrage Activists
Pictures of key women who helped to win the vote.
Included here: key biographies of women who worked for women's right to vote. Note: while the media, especially in Britain, called many of these women suffragettes, the more correct term historically is suffragists. And while the struggle for the right of women to vote is Women's Suffrage Activists
Pictures of key women who helped to win the vote.
Lucretia Mott Pictures
Pictures of Lucretia Mott, Quaker anti-slavery activist and women's rights activist.
Pictures of Lucretia Mott, Quaker anti-slavery activist and women's rights activist.
Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
Quotations from Anna Howard Shaw, a physician and minister who was also a prominent woman suffrage activist.
Quotations from Anna Howard Shaw, a physician and minister who was also a prominent woman suffrage activist.
Maud Younger
Maud Younger, a union organizer who became a key person in the last stages of the American struggle for the vote for women, was born wealthy. She was especially famed for an automobile tour for suffrage.
Maud Younger, a union organizer who became a key person in the last stages of the American struggle for the vote for women, was born wealthy. She was especially famed for an automobile tour for suffrage.