In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

Buffalo and Western New York played an active role during the decades-long women's suffrage movement that, eventually, led to the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

The rally at City Hall marked the conclusion of the nationwide "Driving the Vote for Equality" tour.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — One hundred years ago this week, American women won the guaranteed right to vote. On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. Cleveland and northeast Ohio played an important role in the long struggle for women’s rights and the passing of the 19th Amendment. Cleveland was a center for the ABOLITIONIST ...

On May 21, 1914, Reno women formed a group opposed to granting women the right to vote. That fall, rural support won Nevada women the right to vote.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A suffrage parade. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” ...