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 ...

It would take two more decades and another world war before the Navy -- and the rest of the military -- took seriously the contributions of Black women, albeit begrudgingly and slowly. Through ...

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 ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

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 ...

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 ...