The day before Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration, on March 3, 1913, Paul organized a women's suffrage parade of more than 5,000 participants from every state in the Union. The festivities drew ...

She entered Barnard College, soon after the suffrage parade. While at Barnard, Lee continued her advocacy for women. Bathed in the campus atmosphere of first-wave feminism, she grew more ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

Force-feeding and imprisonment could not stop suffragist Alice Paul’s march forward. A new park site would tell her story. Horse-drawn floats, trumpeters, banners, and thousands of marchers.

They could not keep their own property and money. How did women try to change this position? Suffrage societies were formed in the 19th century and came together to form the National Union of ...