University of Oregon
University of Oregon: American Woman Suffrage Association Poster
A poster and description from the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869-1890).
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Holland's Magazine, March May, 1913
This site offers excerpts from an essay content sponsored by "Holland's" magazine. The topic: women's suffrage. A good place to get the ideas and perspectives of real women from the early 20th century, and to learn how suffragists spread...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: A Haunting Question
Suffragists in Texas attempted to have their voice heard. However, the issue of race often tore these women apart, and ultimately ended the Texas Equal Rights Association in 1896. Explore the words and strategies of this period's...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Read about Minnie Fisher Cunningham, a suffragette who became president of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association in 1915 and who ran for the Texas Senate.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Susan B. Anthony
In this lesson, students will learn about Susan B. Anthony and her fight for what she believed in. Students will identify Susan B. Anthony's actions that make her an agent for change.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist, and suffragist.
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League of Women Voters
This resource provides information about important issues, relating towards female voters.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin
Students will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview, political beliefs, and core values.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist
Through two primary source activities and a short biographical video, students will understand the remarkable career of this persevering woman who lived up to her self-chosen name.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Fight for the Nineteenth: The Fight for Women's Suffrage
Looks at the history of the movement to obtain equal rights for women, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, when women won the right to vote.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington
On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote. Michelle Mehrtens details how the...
Read Works
Read Works: The Right to Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the struggle for women to gain the right to vote. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Scholastic
Scholastic: History of Women's Suffrage
This site summarizes the history of women's suffrage throughout various countries and continents, including: United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Africa, etc. It also briefly includes the...
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Wow Museum: Western Women's Suffrage Wyoming
Read about the place Wyoming holds in the history of women's suffrage. Even before statehood, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote. Find out how important that was to those who lived there.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: Women and Children, Circa 1920
How did the 1920s affect those working on farms? This brief article takes a look at the early optimism felt by 1920s farm families, as well as the poverty, resulting from overproduction, and also touches on how various groups benefited...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Historical Overview of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]
Read this historical overview of the National Woman's Party, an organization focused on giving women the right to vote. Find out about some of the important figures in the fight and the ways the women tried to push their agenda. [pdf]
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]
This comprehensive essay lays out the tactics the National Woman's Party used in its campaign to obtain women's suffrage. In addition to an explanation of the various tactics are many photographs from the Library of Congress' Records of...
Library of Congress
Loc: Hear Us Roar: Victory, 1918 and Beyond
Exhibition tells the story of the passing of and ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Suffragists and Their Tactics Lesson Plan
Young scholars work with two document collections, "Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920" and "Votes for Women: 1848-1921", to understand how the suffragists changed the requirements for voting in America.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment
This resource provides the 19th Amendment and a short history of the women's suffrage movement state by state.
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A History of the American Suffragist Movement: Excerpt: In the Beginning
Based on excerpts from the book entitled "A History of the American Suffragist Movement," this site provides a timeline with biographical description of several key leaders in the Women's Suffrage Movement during that time. The site...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Women's Suffrage Timeline Facts
Comprehensive summary features detailed facts and information about how the fight for the right to vote led to the Women's Suffrage movement.
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