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Nineteenth-Century Feminist Writings
Contemporaries sometimes called the nineteenth century “The Woman’s Century.” Certainly it is true that there were dramatic changes in the status and...
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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights
Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution
The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a “stake in society.”...
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Mary Elizabeth Lease: Populist Reformer
Blaming Wall Street for the nation’s economic woes is not a new...
Glossary Term – Event
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
Sojourner Truth delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at a statewide women’s rights convention in Ohio.
Glossary Term – Event
Suffrage parade in New York
Twenty-five thousand suffragists marched in New York City.
Glossary Term – Organization
American Woman Suffrage Association
The American Woman Suffrage Association, organized in 1869 by Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and others, focused on achieving suffrage for women.
Glossary Term – Organization
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The National American Woman Suffrage Association was created by the 1890 merger of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association.