Both historians also suggested Carrie Chapman Catt should be part of any group of key women's suffrage leaders. Catt was Anthony's successor at NAWSA, which she led from 1900 to 1904.

The female leaders of the U.S. anti-suffrage campaign "were generally women of wealth, privilege, social status and even political power," NPR learns from Corrine McConnaughy, who teaches ...

Focus Features hosted the New York premiere of “Suffragette” on Monday night at the Paris Theatre with stars Carey Mulligan and director Sarah Gavron. There was a collective sigh on the red ...

Emmeline Pankhurst, the British suffragette leader known for her combative — and sometimes violent — activism, took the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the evening of ...

The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, officially giving women the right to vote for the first time in American history — largely thanks to early suffragette leaders such as Cady Stanton, who ...

She is the suffrage leader in America. She trained under Susan B. Anthony. Anthony chose her to lead the movement into the 20th century. And so she's a very important figure.

After a five-day journey from Britain that left her “more dead than alive,” Edwardian England’s most dangerous Suffragette stepped off the White Star Line’s Cymric on Nov. 7, 1915, and ...

Anti-suffrage leaders spread their message to 1,200 people as part of a tour on the Hudson River in May 1913. (Library of Congress) Once women were granted the right to vote, ...

‘Suffragette,’ with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep. Directed by Sarah Gavron, from a screenplay by Abi Morgan. 106 minutes.