Women’s Suffrage Movement
History: Women’s Suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years… learn more
PBS LearningMedia: Teaching Women's Suffrage
This collection of video clips, lesson plans, and primary sources details key figures, events, and regional movements of the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for… learn more
Women's Suffrage & Equal Rights: Free Lesson Plans & Resources
Women's Suffrage and the Transformation of Society Born from the powerful, unwavering momentum of hundreds of women who first convened a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York,… learn more
August 18: Nineteenth Amendment
On this day in 1920, Tennessee narrowly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment thereby adding women’s suffrage to the U.S. Constitution. The Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in Congress in… learn more
C-Span Classroom: Lesson Plan: Choice Board - Conversations with Suffragists
On August 18, 1920, women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. To commemorate this anniversary, the National Archives hosted a conversation with… learn more
TED-Ed: The Historic Women’s Suffrage March on Washington
.On March 3, 1913, after months of strategic planning and controversy, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women’s Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest… learn more
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change… learn more
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Getting the right to vote didn't come easy for women. Here's how they got it done. BY ELIZABETH HILFRANK learn more