The women’s suffrage movement was a decades‑long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the fi
New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.(Brief Article)Wolfe, Margaret Ripley
Women’s suffrage is the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. The
The second wave of feminism is the period of the women’s movement in the United States that emerged in the 1960s and lasted through the 1970s. Unlike the first wave of feminism, of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which focused primarily on securing w
Seneca Falls Convention was an assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.