This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...

An encyclopedia article on feminism that discusses its history in the ancient world, the influence of the Enlightenment, the suffrage movement, contemporary feminism in the West and the globalization of feminism.

Comprehensive summary features detailed facts and information about how the fight for the right to vote led to the Women's Suffrage movement.

Biographical overview of Carrie Chapman Catt, a dynamic speaker, tenacious organizer, and powerful force in the women's suffrage movement.

A brief biography of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Includes information on important dates, life events.

This site provides a detailed biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, woman suffragist and writer of the 1800s.

This site provides historical and biographical information about the fight in Tennessee to ratify the 19th Amendment.

Information on the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments that helped to transform the women's rights movement.

This article describes the role and responsibility of Crystal Eastman in the Woman's Rights Movement in general and the suffragist movement in particular.

Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), a woman whose "Visions," led her on a crusade to preach of God's goodness, of the abolitionist movement, and of the women's rights movement.

One of the most important Black Americans in the history of the country was Frederick Douglass. Find out more about this outspoken foe of slavery.

Born into slavery and never able to read or write, Sojourner Truth nonetheless was a tired and famous advocate for both abolition and women's voting rights.