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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Women's Suffrage in South Australia
Ms Represented is a series that charts the rise of Australian female politicians over the last one hundred years and the unbelievable things they got up to along the way. In 1894, South Australian women gained the right to vote. They...
60 Second Histories
The Manchester Workhouse
Emmeline Pankhurst describes a visit to the Manchester Workhouse and the effect it had upon her
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Q&A: Women's Suffrage
Questions and answers about women's suffrage.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Her Own Words: Carrie Chapman Catt
Listen to Carrie Chapman Catt speaking about the long struggle for women's suffrage.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fast Facts: 5 Crazy Reasons Why People Thought Women Shouldn't Vote
Learn about some of the strange justifications that used to be made for not allowing women the right to vote in elections.
60 Second Histories
Mrs Pankhurst – marriage
Emmeline discusses marriage and her early life in the suffragist movement
Curated Video
Coverture
Coverture severely restricted women’s political, financial, and personal rights and was imported to the American colonies as a part of English common law. It affected the lives of all American women and although it has been diminished...
History Hub
Emmeline Pankhurst's Hartford 'Freedom or Death' Speech 1913
An actor's reading of Emmeline Pankhurst's Hartford 'Freedom of Death' speech from November 1913.
Curated Video
Who has the Right to Vote in the United States?
Puerto Ricans pays taxes but can't vote in Presidential Elections. While in Chicago, between 2006 and 2016, 199 dead voted from beyond the grave! So how does voting law really work in the United States?
Curated Video
Mary Church Terrell: Championing Suffrage and Civil Rights
Mary Church Terrell was a lifelong activist who advocated for suffrage and equal rights.
60 Second Histories
Women’s Social and Political Union
Part of a series on women's suffrage, this video covers the WSPU; the Women’s Social and Political Union
PBS
Mary Church Terrell | Unladylike2020
Catalytic events wake people up. For Mary Church Terrell the lynching of her friend Thomas Moss lead to her involvement in the catalytic events of suffrage, anti-lynching, and desegregation. Learn more about this amazing woman and her...
Khan Academy
US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Ambitiously spanning American history from 1865 to 1941, this video discusses and clarifies topics such as women's suffrage, the sinking of the Maine, and the development of America as a world empire. Maps and photographs will engage...
PBS
Belle Case La Follette: Ballots and Bloomers | Wisconsin Biographies
Belle Case La Follette is perhaps less well-known than other suffragists but an essential figure in the movement. A short video introduces this remarkable woman and shows how she could influence politics even though she did not have the...
National Woman's History Museum
Women's History Minute: Suffrage
The American West may have been a wild place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but they were far more progressive than eastern states in granting women the right to vote. A brief video outlines how Wyoming and other western...
National Woman's History Museum
Women's History Minute: Sojourner Truth
A short video introduces viewers to an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and former enslaved person, Sojourner Truth. The video showcases the importance of her "Ain't I A Woman speech."
HISTORY Channel
The 19th Amendment | History
An engaging video provides scholars with how the 19th Amendment came to be. Beginning with the Declaration of Sentiments signed at the Women's Rights Convention in 1848, viewers meet major contributors to the movement and take in the...
PBS
Should the U.S. Require Half Its Government to Be Female? | America From Scratch
If you had the opportunity to change the format of the United States government, what changes would you make? That is the question asked by PBS's "America From Scratch" series. Would you require that half of the government be female?...
PBS
Should 12-Year-Olds Be Allowed to Vote? | America From Scratch
"The America From Scratch" series asks viewers to consider what they would change about the United States government if the Constitution were to redrafted, drawn again from scratch. In this episode, the narrator questions adults and...
PBS
Taking the Reins: Women Who Contributed to the Development of the West | Idaho Experience
Meet Katherine Caroline Wilkins and May Arkwright Hutton, two Idaho suffragists who played key roles in winning the vote for women in the state. A 26-minutes video contrasts the women, their lives, and how they approached women's rights.
PBS
Wyoming Women Get the Vote | State of Equality
After watching the trailer for the documentary State of Equality, class members conduct addition research and develop a digital presentation, poster or essay about the Women's Suffrage Movement.
PBS
City of Gold: The Story of South Pass City | Political Pioneers
The Wyoming Territory was the first territory or state to pass legislation granting women the right to vote. A short video provides a brief history of the Wyoming Territory and details the contributions of the citizens of South Pass City...
PBS
Courage In Corsets: The Women's Suffrage Movement in the Northwest
In 1910, Washington became the fifth state to give women the right to vote. A short video introduces the Suffrage Movement in the Northwest that gain women in those states the right to vote years before women gained the right in eastern...
PBS
Taking the Reins: Women in Politics | Idaho Experience
May Arkwright Hutton may not be a familiar name to some but she played a major role in Idaho's Suffrage Movement. An entrepreneur, Hutton used her wealth to promote suffrage. A short video introduces viewers to the work of this...