WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Step inside a living tribute to the women who fought for our right to vote: the 1920 Merch Co., now open in Union Station this August. This groundbreaking ...

A large, dramatic headline was sprawled across the front page of the Aug. 18, 1920, edition of the Evening Gazette of Cedar Rapids. 'TENNESSEE RATIFIES SUFFRAGE,” the historic headline shouted.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — This week marked 101 years after Tennessee granted women’s suffrage. According to historians with the Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA), Nashville was an epicenter ...

One of the Syracuse’s most prominent figures in the struggle for women’s suffrage was Harriet May Mills. Born in 1857, Mills was a gifted speaker and organizer and a tireless worker for the cause. In ...

As the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States, Perry County women are reflecting on what that means to them and what suffrage means going ...

"From the earliest history of our country, woman has shown equal devotion with man to the cause of freedom and has stood firmly by his side in its defense," Anthony wrote in her Declaration of Rights ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — It was a hundred years ago this week when American women finally won the right to vote. The suffragettes had marched and rallied for their cause. And on Aug. 28, 1920, the 19th ...

On a sunny afternoon in May 1912, as the sun began to descend over the Washington Square arch in New York City, thousands of women gathered for a march. Women of every age and background packed onto ...

Women seeking the vote had already become comic fodder by the time Variety began publishing in 1905. But gags about suffrage gave way to showbiz support as the women’s vote crept closer to reality.

In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, and some women voted in the November 1920 election.

In 1920, the United States saw the passage of the 19 th Amendment, which ruled that women had the right to vote. One hundred years later, PBS and WGBH are celebrating that landmark amendment, and the ...