The women’s national suffrage movement is traditionally recognized as originating with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. However, other historical accounts cite efforts preceding this summit ...
While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...
A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law.
It took years of campaigning for women to get the vote and have a say in the running of the country. Gwenllian Morgan became Wales' first female mayor in 1910, in Brecon. Although a first for its time ...