Women's Suffrage Movement
The pivotal events and individuals that made the passage of the 19th amendment - women's suffrage - possible along with the other gains of the women's movement.
This article gives background to and information on the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. It was at this convention that Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments was modified and adopted by the suffragettes.
On August 26, 1920, the long road to women's suffrage ended with the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. About's Guide to Women's History, Jone Johnson Lewis, gives a detailed overview of the events that led up to the final 'battle'.
About's Women's History Guide, Jone Johnson Lewis, presents a brief sketch of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She details her involvement in the Women's Suffrage Movement along with her other efforts to gain more rights for women.
Read about Lucretia Mott's involvement in the women's rights and abolition movements. It was Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who conceived of the important Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848.
Not every woman agreed with the goals of the suffragettes. In fact, the author of this 1913 book, Helen Kendrick Johnson, makes arguments against the suffrage movement.
August 26, 1920 is the title of another great article from Jone Johnson Lewis' Women's History site. This date refers to the Nineteenth Amendment, which was finally ratified in 1920.
This timeline chronicles the struggle for women to have the right to vote.
