Suffrage Movement

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I had to make a "Women's Suffrage" poster or flier type thing and I kind of went overboard and turned it into an art project XD It was fun though ;D Thi... Woman's Suffrage Poster

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Roberta Heiman of the LWVSWIN Board developed a 40-minute PowerPoint presentation to be shared with local civic organizations and classrooms. Due to the pandemic, she is not doing any talks in the immediate future but you can contact h

One hundred years ago today, on Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have given women the right to vote. The final vote — 204 against and 174 for — came at the end of a 10-hour debate. It was not until five years later, in 1919, that the 19th Amendment passed, giving the vote to all American women. (Women had only previously been permitted to vote in certain states.) Here's a collection of dramatic photos from the women's…

For this year's International Women's Day, TIME commissioned photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize images from the suffrage movement.

From bluebirds and cats to pins shaped like jail cells, early 20th-century activists used visual cues to advocate for women’s right to vote.

One of the largest surviving collections of suffrage posters from the early twentieth century are housed in Cambridge University Library’s famous tower. This month, a selection will go on display for the centenary of the Representation of the People Act that finally gave some women the vote.