women's suffrage
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The fight for women’s suffrage, the prohibition movement and other progressive achievements marked the years before the sesquicentennial.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Her show “Suffs,” which is about the women’s suffrage movement leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, opens Tuesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre as part of its inaugural national tour.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
Many donned white clothing in honour of the women's suffrage movement.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2024
The progress we’ve made in women’s suffrage, equal rights, civil rights, the separation of church and state along with the freedom to worship as you choose speak to the progress we’ve made.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024
The story of women’s suffrage ended with Henry Burn’s vote in the Tennessee statehouse in 1920, but it began almost a century earlier with Elizabeth Cady, a young girl in Johnstown, New York, in 1826.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
