Meet the prominent people engaged in fighting for woman's right to vote throughout Europe around the turn of the century. This unit provides circumstances leading to this fight, documents supporting the right, suggested writing...

Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore the campaign for women's suffrage through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

This website from EDSITEment has a lesson plan that examines the push and pushback for voting rights for women. Using primary sources such as political cartoons and letters, find out why people were opposed to universal suffrage, and...

The day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, 5,000 marchers along with floats, bands, and mounted groups paraded down Pennslvania Avenue in support of women's suffrage. Read about the parade, the actions of those watching the...

Extensive information for high-school classes examining the history of women's suffrage and the struggle for equal rights as well as related issues that address such questions as: Are laws protecting women's rights still needed?...

Primary sources reveal the true resistance suffragists faced as they fought for women's right to vote. Through this collection of lessons, students will "understand the societal role of women from 1840 to 1920" and explore the history of...

This site summarizes the history of women's suffrage throughout various countries and continents, including: United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Africa, etc. It also briefly includes the...

Teachers and young scholars alike can check out this site to learn about the women's suffrage movement in Connecticut. The brief history is followed by lesson plan suggestions.

Find out how women won the right to vote. Read a brief history of the women's suffrage movement and the text of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Explore the ways in which the women's suffrage movement, after African-American men were given the right to vote, fell short. Read texts from this period of time.

Here is an 11-page report written by Jessie Daniel Ames, the president of the Texas League of Women Voters, which details the founding of the League of Women Voters and their activities following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

This site discusses the social conditions in America that led to the Women's Movement, along with some women's world history.

From the Library of Congress archives, open this site to view an early film of women suffragettes of New York visiting Roosevelt at Sagamore in 1917.

A chronological timeline of important events and notable women in the American Suffrage Movement.

Creating a powerful political imagery was crucial to establishing a political presence in the American public consciousness and in bringing about the acceptance of voting rights for women.

Manitoba the first province in Canada to give women the right to vote! Follow the events of suffrage and temperance as well as the political actions which led to this historic decision.

Leaflet regarding women's suffrage in Wyoming, presented at the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893. View the original document and a transcript of the text.

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements .

Find out about women's suffrage not only in the United States, but around the world. An interactive map displays the dates women gained their right to vote.

Resource provides multiple formats of the entire online text of Johnson's 1913 anti-suffrage book, in which she attempts to discount the major claims made by prominent suffragists.

Text of an article by Susan B. Anthony which was originally printed in "The Revolution," in 1868. The article is titled, "Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" The text can be read online or downloaded in either PDF...

Looks at the history of the movement to obtain equal rights for women, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, when women won the right to vote.

On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote. Michelle Mehrtens details how the...