Ida Porter Boyer, a Schuylkill County woman who played a leading role in the women’s suffrage movement, is on track to being ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted ...
Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...
This past Fourth of July, in fact, a few days before, I replaced the American flag on my brother’s (and his wife’s) military grave marker at St. Philip’s Catholic cemetery in ...
Activist Alice Paul pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment after the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for American women. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress In 1923, Paul ...
A painting by a Manhattan artist is going down in Kansas history. Phyllis Garibay-Coon, the first woman to have a painting ...
"and it did not act on the Nineteenth Amendment providing for woman suffrage until 1969, some forty-nine years after it had become a part of the Constitution." The state did start passing laws to ...
The Monroe County Historical Association will host its 103rd Annual Meeting and Award Luncheon on Feb. 23 at Terraview at ...
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The question I expected came ...
Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...
Discover the inspiring stories of the trailblazers who fought tirelessly for women’s right to vote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In ...
One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment enfranchised millions of women across the United States following a seven-decade campaign. The struggle to expand voting rights to women resonates today as..