The musical Suffs tells the riveting, complicated, devastating story of how women in the United States got the right to vote. With a book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, the musical explores the ...

Each September, we celebrate Constitution Day, honoring the document that defines our government and secures our rights. But constitutions dont defend themselves. They work only when citizens ...

This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...

The long fight for voting rights for women in America had some delicious twists. Suffragists often raised money for their activities with bake sales and by compiling cookbooks to sell. While it might ...

As the nation sits on the threshold of history, with voters during the Nov. 5 election weighing whether to make a woman president for the first time, the women who created the path leading up to this ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

The Suffrage Museum will tell the story not only of how women won the right to vote but also of the daily lives of women before the movement took hold. “We want to highlight the work of Tennesseans in ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-not-all-women-gained-right-to-vote-in-1920/ Three African American women at a polling place, one looking at ...