Directory of Suffrage Movement Resources

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History, biography, and analysis of the U.S. movement to win women the right to vote.

Subcategories

• 19th Amendment
• Anthony, Susan Brownell

Resources in This Category

• Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home

  http://www.catt.org/
  Web site for the Iowa childhood home of U.S. suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, including a biography, extensive bibliography, multi-media gallery, and links to other sites related to woman suffrage and women's history.

• History of Women's Suffrage

  http://www.tomernotes.com/Women'sSuffrage/HDLAProject.html
  Student project. Detailed history of the women's suffrage movement along with quotes, speeches, a report on the responsibility of voting, a timeline, and pictures and photos from the movement.

• Library of Congress: Votes for Women

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/
  Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection, which includes books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the women's suffrage campaign.

• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

  http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
  Learn how women got the right to vote--and how two 19th century women made it happen--in this interactive look at the struggle for suffrage. Delve into historical documents and discuss the state of the women's movement today.

• The Long Road to Suffrage

  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa022299.htm
  About.com page on the 1848-1920 cause for woman suffrage in the United States. Includes various timelines, biographies, photographs, and articles.

• The Nineteenth Amendment and the War of the Roses

  http://www.blueshoenashville.com/suffragehistory.html
  Dramatic story of the decisive Tennessee legislature vote for ratification of the 19th Amendment in Nashville, August 18, 1920.

• The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration.

  http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED453151.pdf
  Provides the full-text of this ERIC Digest which details the history of the Seneca Falls Convention and gives lesson plan ideas for teaching about it.

• The Woman Suffrage Timeline

  http://www.thelizlibrary.org/SUFFRAGE.HTM
  Chronological history of women's struggle for voting rights in the United States.

• Timeline of Women's Suffrage

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
  A timeline overview of the women's suffrage movement. American Women's 72-year fight to win the vote.

• Votes for Women: 1850-1920

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
  Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850 - 1920, collection contains pictorial portraits and scenes document the fight to gain women the vote.

• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
  Consists of the text of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.

• Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote

  http://rrlc.org/winningthevote/
  Biographies of numerous suffragists (Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Frederick Douglass, and others) and timelines of the movement.

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