North Smithfield High School Library: Women's Suffrage:

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• The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920
• "Leaving all to Younger Hands: Why the History of the Women's Suffragist Movement Matters"

Abolition & Suffrage:

• Abolition & Suffrage
• Women's Rights Emerges within the Abolitionist Movement

Suffrage and World War I:

• Women's Suffrage and World War I
• Women's Suffrage: The Struggle for the Right to Vote (WWI)

The Influence of British Suffragists on American Suffragists:

• "How the Radical British Suffragettes Influenced America’s Campaign for the Women’s Vote"
• "Sisters not Demons: The Influence of the British Suffragists on the American Suffragist Movement"

Black Suffragists:

• "National Association of Colored Women"
• "For Black Suffragists, the Lens was a Mighty Sword"
• "Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights"
• Multicultural: More to the Movement
• "Truth be Told: Stories of Black Women Suffragettes"
• "Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?"

Anti-Suffrage:

• National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
• "American Women who were Anti-Suffragists"

Shall not be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote!

An Exhibit set up by the Library of Congress split into the following sections:

• Seneca Falls and Building a Movement, 1776-1890
• New Tactics for a New Generation, 1890-1915
• Confrontations, Sacrifice, and the Struggle for Democracy, 1916-1917
• Hear us Roar: Victory 1918 and beyond

This resource will help students gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.

**Cites sources for you!**

The NS High School Password for this database is ns30344

The 19th Amendment: A Woman's Right to Vote

(approx. 27 min.)

Crusade for the vote:

This site contains a wide range of information on different aspects of the suffrage movement. It also contains a question section which could help in the creation of a thesis statement.

Valuable links provided by The Library of Congress:

• Historical Overview of the National Woman's Party
  • Historical Timeline of the National Woman's Party
  • Selected Leaders of the National Woman's Party
  • Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman's Party Suffrage Campaign
• Gallery of Suffrage Prisoners
• National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection: "The collection consists of a variety of materials including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women's organizations that document the suffrage fight."
• PRIMARY SOURCE SET: Women's Suffrage
  • The Susan B. Anthony Papers
  • Mary Church Terrell Papers
  • Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers

Search National Public Radio for a range of articles!

Here are some interesting finds:

• "Suffrage Photos Build a Bridge from the Past to the Future" 
• "100 Years Later: The Complicated History of the Women's Suffrage Movement"

PBS articles and essays about women's suffrage:

• Quakers & 19th Century Reform
• Cult of True Womanhood
• American History's Best Kept Secret
• Legal Strategies of Susan B. Anthony
• Temperance & Suffrage

Historical Documents/Speeches:

• "Declaration of Sentiments" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Seneca Falls Convention
• United States v. (Susan B.) Anthony
• "Social Purity"by Susan B. Anthony
• "Solitude of Self "by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Proposing Marriage
• "Women want Bread, Not the Ballot!" by Susan B. Anthony

Search here to read documents in their original format from the Suffragist Movement and much more!

Search America's historic newspapers from 1789-1963!

**Cites sources for you!**

Votes for Women - A Portrait of Persistence:

"Votes for Women features more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965 that explore the American suffrage movement and the political challenges women faced."

Use the link above to find the correct formatting for your Annotated Bibliography citations!    

• Columbia College MLA Citation Guide: For further information on MLA citations, In-text citations, Annotated bibliographies and more...