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From Women’s Suffrage to the ERA
July 06, 2020
Virginia recently became the latest state to ratify a constitutional amendment that the country has been fighting about for nearly 100 years since it was first proposed by Alice Paul and other women's suffragists. Has the United States reached a tipping point in the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
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Marie Stuart Edwards
September 1, 2020
Meet suffragist and founder of the League of Women Voters Marie Stuart Edwards.
Sarah Barrett Bolton
August 25, 2020
Meet Sarah Barrett Bolton, a poet who fought for womens property rights in Indiana.
Madam C.J. Walker
August 18, 2020
Madam C.J. Walker was the first female self-made millionaire in America.
May Wright Sewall
August 18, 2020
May Wright Sewall was a famous suffragist and community arts leader.
Ida Husted Harper
August 18, 2020
Meet Ida Husted Harper, a writer, suffragist, and close friend of Susan B. Anthony.
Lillian Thomas Fox
August 18, 2020
A reporter and activist, Fox was the first Black journalist to write for a white newspaper...
Mary Ritter Beard
August 18, 2020
Meet a suffragist and historian who tried to include more women in history textbooks.
"The Vote" from American Experience
Alice Paul: The Militant
July 6, 2020
Alice Paul joined the 'suffragettes' while studying in London to demand the right to vote....
Ida B Wells : The Advocate
July 6, 2020
Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist who exposed racial violence in the South.
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