Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920. Suffragettes were arrested, imprisoned, and ...

An anarchist responds to the guilt-tripping of women which occurs every election time about how suffragettes fought for women's' right to vote. Submitted by Steven. on April 20, 2015 It’s election ...

Background narrative and archive film focusing on the suffragettes taking direct action and how the authorities reacted. An interview with an ex-suffragette from the 1950's adds more detail and depth.

In the last year there’s been a resurgence of media engagement with the Suffragettes, the most militant wing of the first wave feminist movement between 1890 and 1919. It began with two television ...

August marks a century since the ratification and official adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment. This landmark law proclaimed that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ...

In light of Women's History Month, a viral meme has surfaced on social media claiming that early suffragettes would gather in large groups to eat pizza while wearing swimsuits. "In 1921, early ...

A century ago, women activists planted an arboretum outside Bath. Only one tree survived – now it’s generating seeds for a new woodland and a new cause In a sunny back garden north-east of Bath stands ...

A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...