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This full page feature in the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper features photographs taken during the Presidential campaign rally for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Music Hall.

This newsletter was instrumental in distributing information about the Suffrage movement. It was the primary means of getting the message out.

A man dressed in colonial garb stands in the doorway of a building labeled "Votes for Women Convention," and bows to an approaching suffragist in this cartoon. The suffragist represents the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association and she carries a…

In this political cartoon we see Uncle Sam, dressed as a policeman, watching a suffragist who is armed with a brick labeled "anarchy," a bomb labeled militancy," and a torch labeled "arson," as she prepares to smash a window labeled "American Law &…

A political cartoon celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment shows Uncle Sam holding a baby, representing women's suffrage, while a woman looks proudly on from a doorway labeled "Tennessee," the last state needed to ratify the amendment. A…

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's pamphlet celebrates the achievements of women in history, including earning the right to vote and the creation of International Women's Day, but she also discusses how far women still have to go for equality. Gurley Flynn…

This panel is part of a comic strip created by Fred Wright, staff cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Wright gives context in the strip to the fact that labor leaders supported the women's suffrage…

Speech given by Roessing to the Pennsylvania Club Women which links the Suffrage movement to the anti-slavery movement one hundred years after the first Anti-Slavery Convention held in London, England.

Just weeks ago a federal appeals court issued a ruling that likely will prevent some 800,000 Floridians from voting in the November election. The decision is the latest salvo in a decades-long battle over Florida's lifelong voting ban for anyone…

This guide provides resources for research on key events and people in the Suffrage movement beginning in 1776 and leading up to the 19th Amendment.