Women’s History

Seventy-one years after the Seneca Falls Convention, on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives finally approved the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.  The Senate followed on June 4, 1919.  Congress had finally approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states,...

After the passage of woman suffrage amendments by western states, the national suffrage movement floundered.   It was Alice Paul that gave the national suffrage movement a new burst of energy. By drawing attention to the inequality of American women with...

In the traditional telling of the story of how Tennessee became “the Perfect 36”,  the story ended when  State Representative Harry S. Burn voted in support of ratification.  Although bells rang out across the United States as word of Tennessee’s...

We are so pleased to announce that Dr. Carole Bucy has come on board as Official Historian of the Suffrage Coalition.  Dr. Bucy has researched and written extensively on the Suffrage movement, especially in Tennessee.  As a professor, a writer and community servant...

Take a look at the photo above. – only one woman. Was she respected? Not even close: —– “I believe that there is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life . . . I cannot accept the idea in principle that the appreciation of the value of...

Isabella Baumfree, also known as Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), was born into slavery, sold at the age of nine and endured humilation, hardship and abuse for more than four decades. Her activism in women’s issues made her a hero. In 1851, she delivered her...

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Mary McLeod Bethune, (1875 – 1955), was born to Samuel and Patsy McLeod, emancipated slaves, in the summer of 1875 near Maysville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth child of the 17 McLeod children. Her parents were able to obtain five acres of land where she...

Can you imagine how Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott felt after they had worked so hard for the abolitionist movement, attended the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London in 1840, but were told they couldn’t be seated because the Anti-Slavery Society...

Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) wrote a woman suffrage column for the New York Tribune in 1915 and 1917 called “Are Women People?”  She took on issues and men who criticize women for wanting to vote and work. Click on the link to read some of her columns....