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Black and white photo of women and girls in early 1900s dress holding a banner reading "I WISH MA COULD VOTE" at a suffrage march, with American flags in the background.
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Women's suffrage: England
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, left, and her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, stand side by side wearing hats and formal clothing in front of a brick wall and a flag.
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Lucretia Coffin Mott seated and facing forward, wearing a bonnet and shawl, holding an open book in her lap.
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Suffragettes with signs in London, possibly 1912 (based on Monday, Nov. 25). Woman suffrage movement, women's suffrage movement, suffragists, women's rights, feminism.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas - The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in Texas: A Historical Overview. Jul 21, 2026
Add new Web site: U-S-History.com - Woman Suffrage. Feb 06, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Info Brief: The Battle for Women's Suffrage from the Founding Through Reconstruction. Dec 29, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - RN Drive - Historyonics: Women's suffrage. Nov 25, 2025
Add new Web site: American Bar Association - Women's Suffrage Timeline. Oct 02, 2025
Add new Web site: National Library of Australia - Women's suffrage. May 14, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: National Museum of Australia - Women�s suffrage. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: University of North Dakota - School of Law - 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: Celebrating Pilgrims on the journey for Equality one-step at a time. Oct 29, 2024
Added an interactive timeline of voting rights in the U.S. Aug 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Congressional Research Service - Women’s Suffrage: Fact Sheet. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Brookings - Leaving all to younger hands: Why the history of the women's suffragist movement matters. May 07, 2024
Media added. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Women's Suffrage Movement — Facts and Information on Women's Rights. Dec 26, 2023
Add new Web site: NCPedia - Women Suffrage. Oct 17, 2023
Adjusted placement of interactive media. Sep 08, 2023
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Education - Woman Suffrage. Jul 05, 2023
Added a cross-reference to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Feb 22, 2023
Add new Web site: The National WWI Museum and Memorial - Women�s Suffrage. Oct 19, 2022
Rearranged media. Mar 02, 2022
Article revised to note that in the United States poor women and women of colour were effectively denied the right to vote in several states well into the 20th century. Feb 28, 2022
Corrected display issue. Sep 10, 2020
Media added. Jul 06, 2020
Media added. Mar 24, 2020
Add new Web site: U.S. House of Representatives - Exhibitions & Publications - The Women's Rights Movement, 1848�1920. Mar 05, 2020
Added map. Mar 02, 2020
Media added. Feb 24, 2020
Removed the sentence concerning voting rights in conservative Arab countries bordering the Persian Gulf. Feb 19, 2020
Media added. Oct 14, 2019
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Gateway Arch - Virginia Minor and Women's Right to Vote. Jul 25, 2019
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Women's Suffrage. Jun 19, 2019
Noted that Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time in 2015. Feb 07, 2019
Corrected display issue. Oct 05, 2018
Media added. Mar 17, 2017
Add new Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Encyclopedia - Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. Feb 26, 2017
Add new Web site: e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia - Women�s Suffrage. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Encyclopedia - Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan - Woman Suffrage. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Colorado Encyclopedia - Women's Suffrage Movement. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Utah History to Go - Women's Suffrage in Utah. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: 64 Parishes - Woman Suffrage. Jan 09, 2017
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Chicago - Suffrage. Jan 08, 2017
Media added. Oct 04, 2016
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - History and Archaeology - Woman Suffrage. Aug 01, 2016
Add new Web site: Learn NC - Women's suffrage. Aug 01, 2016
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Women's Suffrage. Jul 28, 2016
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Women's Suffrage in Canada. Jul 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture - Woman Suffrage Movement. Jul 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Women's Suffrage. Jul 15, 2014
Added video. Mar 12, 2014
In the discussion of when women acquired the right to vote, changed "1919" to "1918" for Germany, Austria, and Poland. Nov 05, 2013
Add new Web site: BBC - Bitesize - Why women won greater political equality by 1928. Jun 02, 2011
Video of suffragist demonstration in London added. Sep 09, 2009
Article restructured. Aug 24, 2009
Media added. Feb 26, 2009
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Women's Suffrage. Feb 04, 2009
Added new Web site: United States History - Women's Suffrage. Feb 04, 2009
Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Women's Suffrage in Canada. Feb 04, 2009
Added new Web site: History.com - The History of Women's Suffrage. Feb 04, 2009
Added new Web site: History.com - The History of Women's Suffrage. Dec 17, 2007
Added new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Women's Suffrage Movement. Dec 17, 2007
Added new Web site: Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture - Woman Suffrage Movement. Dec 17, 2007
Added new Web site: The Library of Congress - An Overview of One Hundred Years toward Suffrage. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - Battle for Suffrage. Dec 11, 2007
Article revised. Jun 16, 2005
Article added to new online database. Feb 05, 2000
Article revised. Feb 05, 2000
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