Library: Women's Suffrage : 100th Year Anniversary

Our Suffrage Book Display

Spotilight on Suffragettes

Oklahoma Suffrage

Aloysius Larch-Miller

Newpaper clipping from The Woman Citizen with the headline, "These Women Have Not Died In Vain."

Post Card from Peerless Press - Oklahoma City. Title reads"Oklahoma Women want votes for Women."

Purple Banners with gold trim and text. Text reads, "Lifting as we climb. Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women."

Moments from the Women's Suffrage Movement

Hedwig Reicher as Columbia Mar.3.1913 Suffrage Parade in DC

Votes For Women March 1910-1915

Head Quarters for Colored Women Voters

NAWSA Parade Float 1914

Jeannette Rankin speaking from balcony National American Woman Suffrage Association 04-02-1917

Protesters for Suffrage

Womens Suffrage 1911

Women's Suffrage Clarion Button 1912

Protest 1913

Suffrage Protest Wilson

Read about Women's Suffrage

Learn More About Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage Timeline A timeline of important events in American Women's suffrage movement.
International Women's Suffrage Timeline International Women's Suffrage Timeline: 1851-Present
The International History of the US Suffrage Movement Article concerning the history of the US woman suffrage movement.
Votes For Women Smithsonian spotlight on Votes for Women
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” is part of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, “Because of Her Story.” The initiative is one of the country’s most ambitious undertakings to research, collect, document display and share the compelling story of women.
Votes for Women Means Votes for Black Women The question of whether “Votes for Women” meant all women or exclusively white women dates to the beginning of the suffrage movement.
Five You Should Know: African American Suffragists The National Museum of African American History and Culture shares five African American suffragists you should know.
Alice Paul: Champion of Woman Suffrage You may have never heard of Alice Paul, but when you cast your ballot this election season, say a quiet thank you to the person who did so much to win women the right to vote.
Mary Walker, the "Original New Woman" Mary Edwards Walker defied convention in just about everything she did. Walker was uncompromising in her beliefs about herself and the world she lived in. She declined to conform to social expectations, which sometimes cost her greatly; until her dying day Walker refused to be anyone but herself, a trait even some of her detractors eventually came to admire. In an 1897 interview, Walker declared herself “the original new woman." She certainly broke society’s molds. Mary Walker speaker card
Suffragists: From Campaigns to Currency Perceptions of Suffragists
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote highlights the relentless struggle of diverse activists throughout U.S. history to secure voting rights for all American women.
'Votes for Women' 100th anniversary Oklahoma History Center opens new exhibit 'Votes for Women' celebrating 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the state
Shall Not Be Denied - Women Fight for the Vote Handwritten letters, speeches, photographs and scrapbooks, created by American suffragists who persisted for more than 70 years to win voting rights for women, are featured in a new exhibition at the Library of Congress. "Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote," tells the story of the largest reform movement in American history with documents and artifacts from the women who changed political history 100 years ago.
How women's history and civil rights first came to the Smithsonian You've just won voting rights for the women of America. What do you do next? Go to the Smithsonian! The women of The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) had a plan. It began with a painting.
Music in the Women's Suffrage Movement Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music
Poetry and Women's Suffrage When Susan B. Anthony—social activist and icon of America’s women’s suffrage movement—turned eighty in 1900, her fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton dedicated a three-part poem to her “honored friend.”
Primary Sources on Women's Suffrage Links to primary sources about the Women's suffrage movement provided by the Library of Congress.