THE VOTE
Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
Phyllis Wheatley Club, Buffalo, N.Y., was an affiliate of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Founded in 1899, they established a settlement house in 1905. They developed programs to feed the hungry, donated books by Black authors to school libraries, established kindergartens, and organized mother’s clubs to teach parenting skills.
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Trixie Friganza between suffrage leaders. N.Y., 1908.
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Headquarters for Colored Women Voters. Chicago, Ill, 1916.
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Touring the state for suffrage, circa 1916.
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Alice Paul sews stars on flag marking state ratifications. Washington, D.C., 1920.
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Alice Paul. 1915.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch, circa 1910-1915.
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Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
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Ida B. Wells wearing a button she created to publicize a memorial service for African-American combatants court-martialed and hanged in Houston, Tex., in the summer of 1917. The button reads “In Memoriam Martyred Negro Soldiers Dec. 11, 1917."
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Suffragist, "Mrs. Suffern," holding sign; crowd of boys and men behind. N.Y., 1914.
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The Great Demand, unveiled at the Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. March 1913.
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Suffragists picket in front of the White House. Washington, D.C., February 1917.
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