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, ...
In Edwardian Britain, men and women were thought to belong to separate public and private spheres, as cartoons of the time ... the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
History columnist Kirk House spotlights notable women in Steuben County history as well as others who exemplified day to day ...
Opponents of women’s suffrage used images of cats to attack the movement in the 19th century, too. In anti-suffragist ...
From Congress to the Olympics, women have made their mark on history Smithsonian Institution Covered in slogans advocating for woman suffrage, suffragists brought this wagon to rallies for ...
Female Delegates at the DNC Are Wearing White to Honor Women's Suffrage on Night of Harris' Speech CHICAGO (AP) — If you think you're seeing a lot of women wearing white during the final night ...
In 1908, she founded the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League (WNASL), which met regularly in central London to discuss how to stop votes for women. Ward was already a successful fiction writer.
Duson has worn white in the past, however, for events celebrating women’s suffrage as well as the Equal Rights Amendment, and felt right at home on Thursday in what she called “women’s white.” ...
Opposition to women having the right to vote was mostly based on tradition and emotion and had nothing to do with reason.
Agnes Naera is kaiwhakahaere matua chief executive OPINION. Today in Aotearoa New Zealand, we celebrate 131 years since women ...
And she did all of this at a time when women could not vote and she herself did not support suffrage. “She did not believe that women should vote or have a public voice,” Handy-Marchello wrote.
Women have been a part of the American political scene even before they were able to legally vote. From the middle of the ...