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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Suffrage leaders also emphasized women’s roles as wives and mothers. Addams and Breckinridge were founding members of the Woman’s City Club of Chicago, ...

In July 1912, following the arrest of the group's leader, the suffragettes turned to arson. Lenton and Olive Wharry conducted a series of arson attacks, and were arrested.