Women's suffrage

Important people, places, and terms

Chronology

Narrative overview

Prologue

The origins of the women's suffrage movement

The beginning of change

A question of rights

A movement divided

A changing of the guard

Conservatives and radicals

Winning the vote

The legacy of women's suffrage

Biographies

Susan B. Anthony: women's suffrage pioneer and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Carrie Chapman Catt: president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Laura Clay: promoter of state-based suffrage and opponent of the Nineteenth Amendment

Abigail Scott Duniway: women's suffrage activist in the Pacific Northwest

Lucretia Coffin Mott: religious leader, abolitionist, and women's suffrage pioneer

Alice Paul: founder and president of the National Womans Party

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: women's suffrage pioneer and president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Lucy Stone: women's suffrage pioneer and founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association

Sojourner Truth: abolitionist and women's rights activist

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: journalist, suffragist, and civil-rights activist

Woodrow Wilson: President of the United States of America during ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Victoria C. Woodhull

Women's rights advocate and presidential candidate

Primary sources

Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

Sojourner Truths "An't I a woman?" speech

Elizabeth Cady Stanton addresses the 1869 National Woman Suffrage Convention

Divisions at the 1869 American Equal Rights Association meeting

The great secession speech of Victoria C. Woodhull

Susan B. Anthony reacts to her conviction for unlawful voting

Francis Parkman recounts arguments against womens suffrage

Belle Kearney discusses womens suffrage in the South

Picketing and prison: the experiences of Ernestine Hara Kettler

The Nineteenth Amendment

Sources for further study.