starting World War One. Both the suffragists close SuffragistsThe name given to women using peaceful protest to try and win the right to vote. and suffragettes close SuffragettesThe name given to ...

With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote Liza ... end of the Civil War created a new ...

But only a world war would bring the president fully behind efforts to secure a federal amendment for women's suffrage. Wilson was repelled by the militant suffragists outside his gate.

After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised Black men but ignored all women, white suffrage leaders excluded African American women from the movement. By the 1890s, some had begun to ...

criminals and judges were not allowed to vote. It didn't mention women who were also excluded from voting in national elections. Canadian women gained more clout during the First World War when ...

bobbed women emerging from the ashes of World War One. “Liberation as a result of the suffrage movement meant women no longer wished to smell of flowers,” explains perfumer and scent historian ...

During the First World War, Vera 'Jack' Holme was an ambulance driver for the Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia. Learn about Vera in this online exhibition. Susila Bonnerjee and Nolini Bonnerjee ...

During the First World War, Vera 'Jack' Holme was an ambulance driver for the Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia. Learn about Vera in this online exhibition. Susila Bonnerjee and Nolini Bonnerjee ...

Majority in Britain's Commons pledges support for women's vote LONDON, Nov. 17 ... the charge of disturbing a meeting presided over by War Secretary Haldane. Suffragettes brave cold to demonstrate ...