they slowly bent public opinion toward voting rights for women. A suffrage amendment was first introduced in 1878; it took 41 years for Congress to send it to the states for ratification.

Voting was a right limited to men or property owners before the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. constitution in ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

But only a world war would bring the president fully behind efforts to secure a federal amendment for women's suffrage. Wilson was repelled by the militant suffragists outside his gate.

Now the National American Women's Suffrage Association doesn't start fighting for a Constitutional amendment until really -- 'til 1913. And the National Women's Party, which is the left wing of ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

In Douglas County, the amendment passed 2,331 to 1,989 and ... and vote in celebration,” of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Kansas, she said.

In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the nation watching. The ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...