National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Gloria Steinem
Biographical profile of Gloria Steinem, journalist, feminist, and passionate leader and spokeswoman of the women's rights movement in the late 20th century.
US Department of State
America.gov: Seneca Falls Convention Began Women's Rights Movement
Learn about the convention that not only paved the way for women's rights but also lead to women's suffrage. This article describes the political climate that motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other proponents of...
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Brief History of Women's Rights Movements
Find a history of the several movements that advocated for women's rights in voting, politics, and at work.
Other
Student Historical Journal 1984 1985: Women's Rights Before the Civil War [Pdf]
Read an overview of the pre-Civil War women's rights movement in a student essay in an historical journal from Loyola University. Find out about specific activists prominent during this time period and learn about their attempts to...
Other
Aclu: Women's Rights
This resource contains a summary of the role of the ACLU in gaining women's rights in a variety of areas. Informative timeline is available.
Rutgers University
Rutgers: Timeline of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the u.s.
Timeline of events relating to women's suffrage from 1848-1920 ending with the passage of the 19th amendment.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Betty Friedan
Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.
Digital History
Digital History: The Impact of the Women's Liberation Movement
This site is an overview of the achievements of the women's movement including employment, wages, education, politics. Also recognizes problems that still exist including gender-specific jobs, wage inequity, divorce and poverty rates.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Civil Rights Movement: Women's Leadership
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about women's leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. Meet the women who led the civil rights movement as organizers, political strategists, marchers,...
Digital History
Digital History: The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
On December 1, 1955, the late Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and made civil rights history.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902 CE), noted suffragist and reformer of the women's rights movement. Additional content includes a photograph and Stanton's statement before the Judiciary...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Women's Rights
Such social reforms brought many women to a realization of their own unequal position in society. From colonial times, unmarried women had enjoyed many of the same legal rights as men, although custom required that they marry early. With...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom, January 22, 1885
Read a brief biography of Lucy Stone, "one of the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement," and also read a letter she wrote to Mariana Folsom, another suffragist. Image of actual letter is accompanied by line-by-line transcription.
Other
Utah History to Go: Equal Rights Amendment
Utah History Encyclopedia entry on the evolution of the Equal Rights Movement and the ensuing controversy surrounding it, both nationally and in the State of Utah.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the 19th century.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Learn biographical details on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements.
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Patsy Takemoto Mink
A biography and tribute to Patsy Mink (1927-2002 CE) from the Women's Hall of Fame. Article describes her work for women of all color during the turbulent Women's Rights Movement years.
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Friedan
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers an outline of the life and accomplishnments of women's rights activist Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique."
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Women Who Changed the World: Women's Movement
Encyclopedia Britannica provides an overview of the women's movement, which sought equality for women and the changing of a male-dominated power structure.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: The Women's Social and Political Union
A brief account of the founding of the Women's Social & Political Union in Britain.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Susan B. Anthony
A detailed look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Highlights her accomplishments as well as her involvement with the women's rights movement.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .
Scholastic
Scholastic: Lucretia Mott: Woman of Courage
Read about the issues that motivated Lucretia Mott to become an abolitionist and fighter for women's rights.
University of Missouri
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Women's Fight for the Vote
Find out how women won the right to vote. Read a brief history of the women's suffrage movement and the text of the Nineteenth Amendment.