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
Women’s Rights Movement Begins 19th Amendment The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had. ...
Many of those women also wore all-white outfits to the voting booth as an homage to the suffrage movement, which secured white women’s right to vote on August 18, 1920. The singular focus on Anthony and her white women peers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Carrie Chapman Catt, ...
New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.(Brief Article)Wolfe, Margaret Ripley
The article reviews the book "From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women; An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues" by Suzanne O'Dea.AltschillerUniv.DonaldUniv.Library Journal
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