The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shared "Five African American Suffragists You Should Know" to tell a more complete history of the struggle for women’s ...
At the 1911 meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the membership elected Jane Addams as first vice president and Sophonisba Breckinridge as second vice president.
allowing suffragists and former abolitionist allies to work together again in the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. Nonetheless, even though the abolitionist-women’s rights ...
After 8 years in the position, and nearly 30 fighting for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony stepped down as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony chose as her ...
Her willingness to hold the reigning Democratic Party accountable, even if that meant alienating Democratic supporters, was at odds with the more diplomatic approach of the National American Woman ...
when Congress authorized the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation to “establish a commemorative work on federal land in Washington, D.C., to honor the pioneers of the early American ...
While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...
How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1897.
For five years, the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation ... If this is going to be the first and only monument on the National Mall dedicated to American women's history—and with ...