Bus boycott of 1955 proves that nonviolence is more powerful than the alternative.
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Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Obeying a supernatural call to ‘travel up and down the land,’ she sang, preached, and debated throughout the eastern and midwestern U.S.
How many suffragettes were there? There were thousands of suffragettes spread across the world. In Pennsylvania alone there were around five thousand, while in other parts of the world there were well over that. The amount of supporters of the Women's Suffrage movement was large.
This rare deck of suffrage playing cards was distributed by the National Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman Suffrage Party of New York. It also comes with a blue and a purple background instead of yellow.
The Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial was dedicated on Saturday, August 26, 2006. It portrays three prominent Tennessee women who fought for ratification of the 19th amendment. Even in 2006, a...
Almost 100 years ago, American women won the right to vote. But not before they were ridiculed and vilified.
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Evelyn Rumsey Cary, 1905
Suffragettes
Suffragette
Rose Lamartine Yates with her young son, Paul. Rose was honorary organising secretary of the Wimbledon branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. In 1909 she was charged with obstruction while on a deputation and served a month in prison. Her son was 8 months old at the time of her imprisonment. c.1910
Suffrage women are hauled off to jail.
Artist Stephanie Syjuco’s patterns for fabric banners make a historically rich symbol of resistance accessible to all.
Suffragettes leaving jail
