Suffrage Movement

Improve your story with characters that not only step out of the box, but kick it across the room.

From Seneca Falls to the civil rights movement, see what events led to the ratification of the 19th amendment and later acts supporting Black and Native American women's right to vote.

The centennial of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, will be celebrated in song Aug. 26 with a virtual production of “Perfect 36.” A joint collaboration of TheatreWorks Silicon…

Women's fight for equality is nothing new: A hundred years ago, brave women gathered to march and demand their right to vote and, unsurprisingly, Bay Area ladies were on the front lines. Take a look at the women's suffrage movement in San Francisco during the 1800s and early 1900s.

The fascinating photographs depict the inspired tactics used by the British and American suffrage movement during this time, such as hunger strikes and demonstrations.

I recently came across information about the contributions of black women preachers in the 19th century to the quest for gender equality in the church.

Is there a 'hidden history' of black and ethnic minority women in the British women's suffrage campaign?

It was at this small gathering where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others let the discontent of their lives boil over—and decided to do something about it.

“Suffragette Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence on her release from Holloway Prison in 1908. Emmeline was arrested while trying to make a speech in the lobby of the House of Commons. She was sent to prison, the first of 6 terms, that she served for her political activities #socialhistory”

Second-wave feminism concentrated on women’s equality and advancing women’s rights since the suffrage movement of the first wave.