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Women's Suffrage

Documents the history of Women Suffrage, the Movement, Participants, and the 19th Amendment ratifying women's right to vote.

Books

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After the Vote Was Won

"This book tells the story of how these women made an indelible mark on American history in fields ranging from education to art, science, publishing, and social activism."

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American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

This book ties together all of the movements, moods, and milestones of this exciting period of change in America.

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Amendment XIX: granting women the right to vote

Discusses the historical background, legal cases, and current debate on and impact of voting rights on modern-day life.

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The Woman's Hour

An inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.

eBooks

Streaming Videos

  • Generations: American Women Win the Vote - 72 years of suffrage history, describing the struggle the suffragists faced.
  • What 80 million women want - As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that her voice is never heard.
  • Women's suffrage - A history of American women's fight for the right to vote.
  • Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony - Two-part Ken Burns and Paul Barnes film presenting the history of women's suffrage in the United States.