Growing Frustration
A woman speaks out about women’s exclusion from Federal era voting rights expansions.
Benevolent Societies
Resources illustrating how women influence American society without voting rights.
Remember the Ladies
Abigail Adams asks her husband, John Adams, to consider improving women’s standing while he is drafting the Declaration of Independence.
Fighting Jim Crow
A pamphlet written by Ida B. Wells that addresses racial inequalities in the United States.
Black Women’s Clubs
A poster and speech from the first meeting of the First National Conference of Colored Women showing how Black women organized in the fight for equality.
Temperance Movement
An image of an allegorical female figure representing the temperance movement.
Suffrage and the Fifteenth Amendment
An opinion article written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in opposition to the 15th Amendment.
School Segregation
A letter written by a Chinese immigrant mother who fought against school segregation.
Minor v. Happersett, 1874
Excerpt from the majority opinion of the Supreme Court decision that held that women do not have a constitutional right to vote.
Life Story: Victoria Woodhull
The story of an activist and businesswoman who was the first woman to run for president of the United States.
