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Discover your connection to the women who shaped history.
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Stories and milestones from the fight for women's voting equality.
Stories and milestones from the fight for women's voting equality.
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Making Them Count:
The Continuing Path to Voting Equality
Making Them Count: The Continuing Path to Voting Equality
By Ancestry®
What did the ratification of the 19th Amendment mean to the story of women in America?
Facts
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Did you know?
The women's suffrage movement produced the largest one-time increase in voters in American history.
Article
They Would Be Heard: How African American Women Mobilized for Voting Rights
They Would Be Heard: How African American Women Mobilized for Voting Rights
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
African American women faced racial divisions within the suffrage movement. Explore their fight to overcome obstacles to the ballot.
Article
Through the cracks of the 15th and 19th Amendments
Through the cracks of the 15th and 19th Amendments
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
The long and arduous road for African American women and their goal of suffrage for all.
Article
The path to 36: Ratifying the 19th Amendment
The path to 36: Ratifying the 19th Amendment
By Ancestry®
What if following your mother's advice changed the course of history?
Facts
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Did you know?
In 1896, the National Association of Colored Women, led by Mary Church Terell was formed to "secure and enforce civil and political rights.
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Votes for Women: Who Could and Couldn't in Your Family History
Votes for Women: Who Could and Couldn't in Your Family History
By Ancestry®
It was November 2, 1920. And women in America were voting in a national election for the very first time.
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Did you know?
The word "Suffragette" originated in the UK as a disparaging term but was quickly adopted by the million protesters. As the suffrage movement grew in the U.S, American women preferred to be called "Suffragists."
Article
What Was Life Like Beyond the Fight for the Ballot?
What Was Life Like Beyond the Fight for the Ballot?
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Model Ts were on the streets. Silent movies were all the rage. And mass-produced foods were in the pantry. Records show that suffrage was just one facet of life.
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Did you know?
Beginning on January 10, 1917 suffragists from the National Women's Party, dubbed the Silent Sentinels, were the first group to ever picket the White House.
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Illustrating Opinions: Women’s Suffrage Propaganda
Illustrating Opinions: Women’s Suffrage Propaganda
By Ancestry®
The struggle for women’s suffrage was contentious. Nothing reveals this more than the cartoons and propaganda surrounding Votes for Women.
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How Votes for Women Swept the Nation
How Votes for Women Swept the Nation
By Ancestry®
Before 1920, many women around the country were already making their voices heard in local, state, and even presidential elections.
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Women's Suffrage and WWI
Women's Suffrage and WWI
By Ancestry®
It created a shift in women’s roles and revealed the hypocrisy of those in power who claimed to be fighting to make the world safe for democracy while denying that right to half the population at home. How the “war to end all wars” helped fuel the battle for suffrage in America.
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Honoring Their Pasts at the Polls
Honoring Their Pasts at the Polls
By Ancestry® in partnership with MadameNoire
Three women look back at freedom fighters in their family stories for inspiration in As We Climb, a celebration of African American women who helped shape history.