Women's Suffrage
- The Protest Legacy of the 19th AmendmentThis article by Dee Pregliasco published in the LBA Bar Briefs highlights the role of protests in the fight for women's suffrage.
- The Long 19th Amendment ProjectThis open-access digital portal facilitates interdisciplinary, transnational scholarship, and innovative teaching around the history of gender and voting rights in the U.S.
The Woman's Hour by ISBN: 9780525429722Publication Date: 2018Held at Ekstrom Library: JK1911.T2 W45 2018
American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 ( by Call Number: JK1896 .W37 2020ISBN: 9781598536645Publication Date: 2020The story of the movement for voting rights in all its diversity and intersectionality, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it: the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims, and the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if suffrage were universal.
Women's Suffrage by Call Number: JK1896 .H54 2006ISBN: 9780780807761Publication Date: 2005This book examines the history of the women's suffrage movement and its impact on American life and society. Features include narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and annotated sources for further study.
Failure Is Impossible by Call Number: HQ1413.A55 S48 1995ISBN: 9780812927184Publication Date: 1996This volume contains primary source materials juxtaposed with contemporary reports and biographical essays.
Eighty Years and More by Call Number: JK1899.S7 A3 1993ISBN: 9781555531379Publication Date: 1993An autobiography by one of the leaders in the fight for woman suffrage.
One Woman, One Vote by Call Number: JK1896 .O54 1995ISBN: 9780939165261Publication Date: 1995A companion book to the PBS documentary by the same name, this anthology is a comprehensive collection of writings - contemporary and historical - on the woman suffrage movement in America.
Jailed for Freedom by Call Number: JK1901 .S85 1995ISBN: 9780939165254Publication Date: 1995A firsthand account of the National Woman's Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O'Hare.- For the public record : a documentary history of the League of Women Voters byCall Number: JK1881 .S78 2003ISBN: 9780899594415Publication Date: 2003A publication of the League of Women Voters.
Votes for Women by Call Number: KF4895 .L46 2019ISBN: 9780691191171Publication Date: 2019A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the U.S. that highlights underrecognized activists.
Role of Black Women
- African American Women and the Nineteenth AmendmentThis National Park Service website provides a short history of black women's struggle for suffrage.
- Black Women Had to Fight for the Right to Vote on Two FrontsThis article from AARP notes the difference between motivation of white suffragists (who primarily focused on gender equity) and black suffragists (who saw voting rights as a key part of racial equity and a means of uplifting their communities).
- Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's RacismThis ACLU blog post provides a concise overview of the role of racism in women's suffrage in the U.S.
- It’s Time The ‘Truth Be Told’ About Black Women’s Leadership In The Fight For The VoteThis article from Forbes introduces the untold stories of Black women’s vital role in the suffrage movement.
- Truth Be ToldThis website tells the story of black women's fight for the vote in the U.S.
- Women’s Suffrage Centennial: Black Women Played Pivotal Role in Securing the Right to VoteNannie Helen Burroughs wrote in 1915: “when the ballot is put in the hands of the American woman, the world is going to get a correct estimate of the power of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength of which poets have never sung, orators have never spoken, and scholars have never written.”
- ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the VoteThis New York Times article reviews the book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, by Martha S. Jones.
The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells by Call Number: E185.97.W55 A3 1995ISBN: 0807070653Publication Date: 1995An intimate look at the hopes, thoughts, and day-to-day life of a young woman who would later become a celebrated civil rights activist and antilynching crusader.
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Call Number: JK1896 .T47 1998ISBN: 9780253211767Publication Date: 1998A comprehensive look at the African American women who sought the right to vote. This volume discovers numerous Black suffragists previously unknown and analyzes the women's own stories.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Call Number: E185.97.T8 G55 1993ISBN: 9780679740353Publication Date: 1993This autobiography of a pioneer for racial and sexual equality discusses her years as a slave in upstate New York and describes the spiritual revelations that turned her into an abolitionist.
Women's History
Unequal Sisters by Call Number: HQ1410 .U54 2000ISBN: 9780415925174Publication Date: 1999This volume addresses issues of race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality, and provides a more accurate and inclusive history of US women.
U. S. History As Women's History by Call Number: HQ1410 .U17 1995ISBN: 9780807844953Publication Date: 1995Fifteen original essays by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history, covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history.
