However, some women believed that only direct action could force change. Derisively labelled ‘suffragettes’ by Daily Mail journalist Charles E Hands, they formed a new militant wing of the ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Wyoming's State Capitol building has been a National Historic Landmark since 1987 and last month, the Department of the ...

She was a tireless ambassador for the suffrage movement in Ireland, travelling throughout the country to address meetings on voting issues. In 1909, the North of Ireland Women’s Suffrage Society ...

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(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...

Fawcett was a shrewd and tireless campaigner and leader, who resolutely broke down the barriers to women’s suffrage. But this fight for the right to vote was not the work of one woman. Gottlieb worked ...

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Brings an Amblin Movie Feel to that Galaxy Far, Far Away. A roguish Jude ...

The warning was sounded again in January 1913 after leading suffragette Annie Kenney made a widely reported speech inciting women to take action on public property: 'Women should never to go out ...