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Votes for Women Posters
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A Century of Women's Rights
Women's Suffrage Centennial 2020
ONLINE RESOURCES & ARTICLES
"The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement" by Jennifer Schuessler | New York Times | Aug. 15, 2019
As the 19th Amendment turns 100, three exhibitions in Washington explore the contentious--and unfinished--struggle for voting rights.
- "Did [the 19th Amendment] grant the vote to women? Not exactly. Before 1920, 15 states, mainly in the West, already had full female suffrage, while others granted women partial voting rights.
And after the amendment, which declared only that states could not discriminate in voting based on sex, millions of women of color were still barred from the polls. Most African-American women in the South, like African-American men, were blocked by poll taxes, literacy tests and other racial barriers, while Native Americans and Asian immigrants were largely excluded from citizenship entirely. "
- the 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative
"This historic centennial offers an unparalleled opportunity to commemorate a milestone of democracy and to explore its relevance to the issues of equal rights today." - Woman's Suffrage History TimelineThe timeline is compiled from from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection Home Page on the Library of Congress website. | National Park Service
- Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840-1920)National Women's History Museum
- Woman Suffrage and the 19th AmendmentNational Archives. Educator Resources include images and scans of historic documents.
- Women’s SuffrageThe History Channel. An article synopsis of the struggle for women's right to vote.
Article of Interest in the North Carolina Collection
- The Faces of Five Decades: Selections from Fifty Years of the New Republic, 1914-1964 byCall Number: 051 NEW NCCPublication Date: 1964"Scarlet Berries" by Rebecca West. March 14, 1916. An indictment on the idea of "elegance" for a woman, her sense of identity, and self worth. pp.41-44.
Women's Suffrage Movement in North Carolina
- She Changed the World Traveling ExhibitThe State Archives of North Carolina has put together a display of 10 archival documents and other items relating to women’s suffrage, including the original copy of the Nineteenth Amendment sent to North Carolina for ratification in June of 1919. Usually housed in the vault, this document (along with anti-suffrage and pro-suffrage propaganda, hand-held fans, facsimiles of legislation and political cartoons, and a suffragist’s sash) will be traveling around the state through November of 2020.
- Women Suffrage
by Caroline Pruden, 2006 | NCpedia. Historical overview of the women's suffrage movement as it unfolded in North Carolina. - North Carolina Women's History Time Line
North Carolina Museum of History - The Church Bells Were Ringing by Jane Kaylor
A new resource for information about the Suffrage Movement in Gaston County, North Carolina, and the local movers and shakers. Published on Biblioboard.
Citation
Author: Gaston County Public Library
Title: Women's Suffrage Movement
URL: https://gastonlibrary.libguides.com/geography-history/womens-suffrage
Revised: 19 August 2022