Suffrage

The fight for the female vote had been ongoing for nearly a century. Find out more about the battle for Women's Suffrage here!

For this year's International Women's Day, TIME commissioned photo editor Sanna Dullaway to colorize images from the suffrage movement.

Fair Play by Becky Brown The fight for Women's Suffrage, so contentious and frustrating in the early teens, began to achieve its goals in the latter part of the decade. The disaster of World War I changed attitudes about many things, including women's roles and rights. Old arguments were replaced by new logic based in fairness. Canadian nurses Men in government came to believe that it was only fair to permit women to vote but also a trade for their service and sacrifices during the war. In…

Artist Stephanie Syjuco’s patterns for fabric banners make a historically rich symbol of resistance accessible to all.

Here's an interesting drawing that we dug up. It shows the suffrage march line from March 4th, 1913. Women marchers organized by country, state,

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In the run-up to the Californian Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena in February, an innovative social media campaign celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage has been launched. Since its debut on October 30 with nineteenth-century activist Lucretia Mott, the CA Book Fair has been posting brief, daily profiles of women who made history (#herstory) to its Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages.

One hundred years ago today, on Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have given women the right to vote. The final vote — 204 against and 174 for — came at the end of a 10-hour debate. It was not until five years later, in 1919, that the 19th Amendment passed, giving the vote to all American women. (Women had only previously been permitted to vote in certain states.) Here's a collection of dramatic photos from the women's…

The Swindon Suffragette Edith New, probably on her release from Holloway Prison in 1908. Source: Scan of a photograph in the "Votes for Women" scrapbook. Image: P... Date: 1908. Photographer: Unknown. Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. www.swindon.gov.uk/localstudies

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