American women's efforts to win the vote were significantly influenced by both the Civil War and World War I. The organized suffrage movement was in its beginning stages in 1861 when the pressures of the Civil War forced activists such as...
Before suffragists began arguing for legislation that would guarantee women the right to vote, governments assumed that women's interests should be and were represented by their husbands, fathers, or brothers. In the last decades of the...
On March 30, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress then drafting the Declaration of Independence. She asked him, as the founding fathers considered what sort of document they would write,...
The term women's suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement's origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s although New Zealand was the first...
Wearing a floor-sweeping dress and a wrought-iron chain around her waist, a woman yokes herself to Britain's Houses of Parliament. The black-and-white image, captured by a photojournalist in 1908, has come to represent the campaign of British suffragists for the right to vote. But...
They said letting women vote would lead to disaster. They worried it would lead to the end of family life, to war, child labor and drinking. Some said women weren't smart enough to make political decisions. But 85 years after American women won...
For Tadashi Kato, it was long-awaited good news that the United Nations General Assembly adopted a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples around the world after more than 20 years of debate. ''The declaration will enable us, the Ainu, to restore...
Maggie Lena Walker (1867--1934) overcame racial discrimination, poverty and sexism to become the first female bank founder and president.She championed black American and women's causes and worked tirelessly to help them achieve economic and social independence."She was self-motivating and self-taught," said David Ruth, assistant superintendent...
Explores the history of the women's suffrage movement in Europe. Explains why women failed to gain the right to vote between 1900 and 1914. Describes how the Suffragettes continued to lose sympathy as their campaign became more militant.
