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18 hours ago · In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John, who was formulating a “new code of laws” during the American Revolution, to “remember the ladies.” He did not. Nearly 150 years ...
4 days ago · Dudden astutely concludes that white northern women’s embrace of distorted media coverage did considerable harm to both the southern freedmen’s aid movement and the women’s suffrage movement. As shown in the final thematic section, racism also shaped southern memorial work and experiences within the Grand Army of the Republic’s Woman ...
2 days ago · Beginning in the nineteenth century, thousands of women across the United States campaigned relentlessly for woman suffrage—the right for women to vote. The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 was a watershed moment and the single largest expansion of voting rights in American history, but not all women gained the right to vote.
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18 hours ago · A revolution in women's rights which began in the nineteenth century simultaneously with the antislavery movement and reached one climax with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 is now moving forward to completion even as the civil rights movement creates in the first spontaneous nationwide challenge to racial discrimination since ...
5 days ago · The rhetoric of mission pervaded discussions of ‘the Woman Question’ in all its manifestations from the seventeen-eighties through to the Edwardian suffrage movement and the campaigns for women’s rights were particularly animated by the concepts of slavery and emancipation with all their imperial connotations.
4 days ago · A Filipina Activist Appeals to the New England Woman's Suffrage Association. In this excerpt from an address to the annual meeting of the New England Woman's Suffrage Association, Clemencia Lopez, an activist in the struggle for Philippine independence, makes common cause with women of the American suffrage movement.
1 day ago · The feminist movement has effected change in Western society, including women's suffrage; greater access to education; more equal payment to men; the right to initiate divorce proceedings; the right of women to make individual decisions regarding pregnancy (including access to contraceptives and abortion); and the right to own property.
