Arrested for “being a person of the female sex” and voting
On November 18, 1872 a deputy U.S. marshal arrested Susan B. Anthony for voting in the 1872 presidential election. She was indicted two months later for voting...
Minnesota ratifies
The 19th amendment to the Constitution guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in...
Opposing the 19th Amendment
In this December 11, 1917, memorial to U.S. House of Representatives member Charles E. Fuller, Alice H. Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to...
Petitioning for the vote
With this petition, men and women from Salem, Massachusetts, ask Congress to pass an amendment giving all citizens the right to vote, regardless of their sex. On May...
Postcard from Wallace Ellis to Hon. Homer P. Snyder regarding woman suffrage
Wallace Ellis sent this postcard opposing the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution to New York Congressman Homer P. Snyder. The amendment would grant...
Protesting down Fifth Avenue
In 1910, the Women’s Political Union organized the first suffrage parade in New York City. Two years later, when this photo was taken, the third annual parade...
Standing up for women's rights
In 1917 the National Women’s Party picketed in front of the White House to press for voting rights for women. Some women who picketed were arrested and spent time...