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...
Stanton and Anthony write Congress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and five other prominent women's rights leaders (including Susan B. Anthony) addressed this petition to the Senate and the House of...
State Action
With this postcard to New York Congressman Homer P. Snyder, Hugh Hughes expressed his opposition to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would...
Suffragettes offer their aid
Suffragettes stand in line to show their willingness to aid their country in 1917 when hostilities broke out between Germany and the United States. In 1918 President...
Tennessee approves
This is a statement, signed by the Governor of Tennessee in 1920, verifying that the state legislature ratified the 19th Amendment proposed by the U.S. Congress....
The 19th Amendment
This Congressional resolution, which proposed extending the right to vote to women, became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state...