At the 1911 meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the membership elected Jane Addams as first vice president and Sophonisba Breckinridge as second vice president.

Alice Paul broke away from the National American Woman Suffrage Association to form the more radical National Woman's Party. She clashed with Woodrow Wilson, who was affronted by Paul's ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members ... program of improvements for African-Americans. The National Association of Colored Women (founded in 1896) built upon this ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law.

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

NEW YORK -- To mark the first day of Women's History Month, we take a look at the suffrage movement and winning the vote for women. New York City was a headquarters for many of the icons who made ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1897.

How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1897.