LibGuides: Women's Equality ~ Women's History: Suffrage

On PBS: The Vote

"The Vote"....streaming on PBS
One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, "The Vote" tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote — a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
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Resources from the Library of Congress

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938.

The bulk of the collection is derived from the library of Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA from 1900-1904, and again from 1915-1920. Additional materials were donated to the NAWSA Collection from the libraries of other members and officers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore.

The Library of Congress exhibit "Shall Not Be Denied"

The campaign for women’s voting rights lasted more than seven decades. Considered the largest reform movement in United States history, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to achieving women’s economic, social, and political equality. Culminating 100 years ago in the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the fight for women’s suffrage was not for the fainthearted. Determined women organized, lobbied, paraded, petitioned, lectured, and picketed for years. Suffragists were ridiculed, patronized, and dismissed by opponents, yet they persisted. Some were assaulted and endured the harsh confines of prison for daring to claim rights equal to men, but they would not be denied.

African-American Women, Racial Justice, and the Vote
While Seneca Falls is considered the first American convention to focus exclusively on women’s rights, the first convention to consider women’s rights as an issue was the May 9, 1837, Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in New York City. Several African American women attended this convention, but no known African American women attended Seneca Falls. The first and second generation of African American suffragists, of which Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Harriet Forten Purvis, and Sarah Parker Remond are a part, had strong ties to the abolitionist movement and believed in universal suffrage—voting rights without regard to race, gender, education, or economic status.

Photo of Fannie Barrier Williams
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
This collection includes 448 digitized photographs selected from approximately 2,650 print photographs in the Records of the National Woman's Party, a collection of more than 438,000 items, housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The images span from 1875 to 1938 but largely were created in the years between 1913 and 1922. The images depict the tactics used by the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States—including picketing, petitioning, pageants, parades and demonstrations, hunger strikes and imprisonment---as well as individual portraits of organization leaders and members. The photographs document the National Woman's Party's push for ratification of the 19th Amendment as well as its later efforts for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

New York Suffrage

November 6, 2017 marked the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in New York State. After almost seventy years of persistent, determined action by suffragists and their supporters, New York became one of the first states to fully enfranchise women in 1917.

~ NYS Women's Suffrage Exhibit online

Coming out in October 2020:

"In Stories From Suffragette City by twelve of historical fiction's biggest names (including Paula McClain, Lisa Wingate, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez) have released a collection of short stories all taking place on Oct. 23, 1915, when thousands of women marched in New York City." --Parade, 9 August 2020

Walls for Women Project
We're celebrating 100 years of women's suffrage and Tennessee's place in history in ratifying the 19th Amendment with the creation of original art throughout the state by an all-female team of professional muralists.
Finish the Fight! by Veronica Chambers & NYTImes Staff
"Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds--black, Asian, Latinx, Native American, and more--who helped lead the fight for suffrage? On the hundredth anniversary of the historic win for women's rights, it's time to celebrate the names and stories of the women whose stories have yet to be told."
A "children's book" for all ages......