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.

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 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 ...

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.

Paul traveled from Washington to attend the funeral services in Buffalo and Jamestown. Edith was laid to rest in Jamestown’s Lake View Cemetery, alongside her parents and six of her siblings. Her ...

But mainstream suffrage organizations were largely segregated, excluding Black women from membership and leadership positions. Members of the Arizona Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in ...