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Women and Work in Early America From the late colonial period through the American Revolution, women's work usually centred on the home, but romanticizing this role as the Domestic Sphere came in the early 19th century. An article by
Jone Johnson Lewis, Women's History Guide
Women in America: Occupations Travellers to America in 1820-1842 describe women's occupations, providing insight into the status and roles of women.
Women and Finance in the Early National U.S. An extensive survey by Robert E. Wright, U. of Virginia, on women as business owners, loan recipients, investors or otherwise involved in financial issues and the workforce in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Links to document supported articles from Spartacus Educational on: Campaigners for Women's Rights; Women Artists and the Campaign; Campaigning Organizations and Male Supporters of Women Suffrage
Suffrage Strategy, NAWSA, 1901 Report on the convention of the NAWSA and its attempts to better organize the suffrage campaign.
The South and Woman Suffrage
Address by Belle Kearney, Mississippi's famous orator, to the NAWSA Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903
Considering Woman Suffrage A
Life editorial from 1905 considering woman suffrage from both sides, plus its conclusion.
To the Teachers of Wisconsin An essay, circa 1912, arguing that teachers, who educate male students to cast ballots, ought to themselves be allowed to vote. includes many other contemporary views
Alice Paul's Fight for Suffrage School site from PBS' history site for middle school students, an article and reading list about the last years of the American struggle to win the vote for women.
Suffragists Lose Fight in the House: 1915 A reprint of the New York Times article (with text transcribed) January 12, 1915, detailing the loss of the suffrage amendment in the United States Congress. Includes statements from those who opposed the suffrage amendment and extended comments by Christabel Pankhurst.
Suffragists' Storm Over Washington Wartime Washington dealt brutally with imprisoned suffragists who dared picket the White House for the right to vote in 1917. William and Mary Lavender, American History magazine, describe events
National Woman's Party An article on the split from the National American Women's Suffrage Association, led by Alice Paul, emphasizing the history of the Texas branch which was founded in 1916.
New York City Campaign A factual history of the 1915 and 1917 suffrage campaigns (with statistics) in New York City. UCLA -no authorship credited
Jailed for Freedom extract from (1920), Doris Stevens, Jailed
for Freedom, when she remembers spending time in jail with Alice
Paul.
Nineteenth Amendment From the US National Archives, a
reproduction of the actual signed 19th Amendment, with a very brief
outline of the struggle to win the vote for women.
Voices of 1920 Heard TodayFrom the 1920s to the 1970s to
today. Interviews edited by
Jone Johnson Lewis.
Extensive archive of oral history from some of the women who made history happen, winning the 19th Amendment in 1920.
From Suffrage to Women's Liberation "Feminism in 20th Century America." Published in
"Women: A Feminist Perspective" ed. by Jo Freeman, who argues that in reality we are now in the third wave of female activism, and the first wave of feminism.
Suffering Suffragettes - W.E.B. duBois about.com. This article originally appeared in the June 1912 issue of The Crisis, a journal considered one of the leading forces in the New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance, addressing a failure on the part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to support a resolution condemning the Southern disenfranchisement of African Americans, in law and in practice.
Black Women: Sent to the Back highlights the racism within the movement as shown in the 1913 inauguration protest parade
Two Suffrage Movements - Martha Gruening This article originally appeared in the September 1912 issue of The Crisis. It addresses the historical ties of the suffrage movement to the anti-slavery movement and regrets the later move away from defending racial justice. Martha Gruening, a white woman, worked for such causes as racial justice and peace.
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