In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

In The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Dr. Rabaka lifts up the intertwined histories of women’s rights, abolitionism, racial justice, and democratic reform. This episode serves as a companion to Episode 23 ...

This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...

Sojourner Truth played a crucial role in championing women’s rights and highlighting the unique challenges Black women ...

The fight for women’s suffrage unexpectedly ignited a nationwide debate about the future of government and social support. This video explores how the expansion of voting rights in the early twentieth ...

Assistant Professor Cassie Yacovazzi, 36, who teaches American history and women’s history at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, talked with the Tampa Bay Times about the women’s ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -Long before women secured the right to vote, progress depended on relationships, persistence, and collective action. That history is at the center of a new two-part Women’s ...

Failing to treat the repression of women as the crisis it is all but guarantees that democratic erosion will continue unchecked. More than 30 years ago, I declared at the United Nations’ Fourth World ...

Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap between ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — During a protest scene in “Suffs,” a character unfurls a banner that says, “We Must Fight For Democracy.” The innocuous moment was met with spontaneous, mid-number applause from the ...

TBT: Airplane crash kills 112, first women’s rights convention called to order. Today’s Throwback Thursday takes us from a tragedy in Iowa to a first step for the women’s rights movement. On This Day ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following letter was published Nov. 7, 2025, at KnoxNews.com. It garnered a number of responses, which can be read below this one. Women's suffrage has been an unmitigated disaster ...