women's suffrage

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Her show “Suffs,” which is about the women’s suffrage movement leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, opens Tuesday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre as part of its inaugural national tour.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

You get two competing organizations, and women's suffrage is kind of eclipsed for another 50 years.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

"Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage and prison reform."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

Between 1909 and 1971, the Constitution was amended 11 more times—on average, about twice per decade—to do things like guarantee women’s suffrage, bar poll taxes, and include the District of Columbia in the Electoral College.

From Slate • May 8, 2024

Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women’s suffrage meeting Miss Love set up.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns