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History > USA > Suffragists > Women's vote 1920
A 1915 illustration by Henry Mayer, titled “The Awakening,” suggested the geographical force behind the suffrage movement.
Photograph: Cornell University, The PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography
The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement As the 19th Amendment turns 100, three exhibitions in Washington explore the contentious — and unfinished — struggle for voting rights. NYT Aug. 15, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/
Nannie Helen Burroughs (left, holding banner, circa 1910) was a leader of the Woman’s National Baptist Convention and an advocate for women’s suffrage.
The contributions of Black women like her to the movement have long been largely overlooked.
Photograph: Library of Congress
Suffrage Isn’t ‘Boring History.’ It’s a Story of Political Geniuses. And by the way, it’s “suffragist” not “suffragette.” NYT Published July 10, 2020 Updated Aug. 11, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/
This commanding portrait of Sarah Parker Remond, part of the early generation of African-American suffragists, was taken circa 1865.
Photograph: Peabody Essex Museum
For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights. NYT Aug. 12, 2020
Women win the right to vote
19th amendment to the Constitution
ratified on Aug. 18, 1920
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
Jane Addams (1860-1935) and Hull House
Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History NYT 15 January 2020
Ken Burns Argues One Vote Can Change History Video The New York Times 15 January 2020
Harnessing the power of its new Democratic majority, the Virginia legislature is poised to vote this week to become the 38th of the 38 states needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would make women’s rights explicit in the Constitution.
In the video Op-Ed above, the filmmaker Ken Burns compares this historic moment with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote 100 years ago. YouTube
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A suffragist gave out bonbons to men at a polling place in New York on Election Day in November 1918.
Women did not yet have the right to vote.
Photograph: FPG/Archive Photos, via Getty Images
The Lessons of the Elections of 1918 A nation ravaged by the Spanish flu figured out how to vote back then. Not without incident, but with democracy intact. NYT March 21, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/
Mrs. Suffern with a home-made banner in the parade 1914 Digital ID: cph 3c35533 Source: digital file from b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-135533 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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TITLE: Mrs. Suffern with a home-made banner in the parade REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-135533 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: Photograph shows Mrs. Suffern wearing a sash and carrying a sign that says "Help us to win the vote," surrounded by a crowd of men and boys.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1914. Bain News Service photograph.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c35533
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Suffragette Rosalie Jones leads a crowd of protesters up Pennsylvania Avenue after a march from New York in 1913.
Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty ImagesMediadrumimages/Publ
Suffrage review: epic retelling of US women's long battle for the vote The Guardian Sat 22 Feb 2020 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/22/
Women's vote 1920
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Mabel Ping-Hua Lee 1896-1966
As a teenager, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee helped coordinate one of the biggest suffrage parades in U.S. history.
Photograph: George Grantham Bain Collection Library of Congress
In Women’s Suffrage, a Spotlight for Unsung Pioneers Through articles, a book, a play and more, a Times special project commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment focuses on lesser-known women who were crucial to the fight. NYT Aug. 13, 2020 2:23 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/i
Chinese-American woman who as a teenager helped the women’s movement in New York City coordinate one of the biggest suffrage parades in U.S. history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/i
Mary Church Terrell 1863-1954
Mary Church Terrell with her daughter, Phyllis, in 1901. Years later, they picketed together outside Woodrow Wilson’s White House.
Winning the Right to Vote Was the Work of Many Lifetimes It took generations of women — mothers and daughters, leaders and followers — to secure the 19th Amendment. NYT Published Aug. 13, 2020 Updated Aug. 14, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/
in 1896, along with Terrell, Ruffin and others, Harper co-founded the National Association of Colored Women, or N.A.C.W.
The group argued that voting rights and education were inextricably linked and raised funds for Black kindergartens, libraries and vocational schools — resources for the next generation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/
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