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The Long March to Women's Suffrage

Women's Suffrage program, 1913

Susan B. Anthony, social reformer and premier leader in the women's suffrage movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, long-time collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and leading philosopher in the women's suffrage movement

Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist, and suffrage activist

Harriet Tubman, a founder of the Underground Railroad, Union Army spy, supporter of women's rights and suffrage

Frederick Douglass, former slave, and early advocate of women's rights, he spoke forcefully in favor of women's suffrage at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1888 International gathering of women suffrage advocates in Washington, D.C. seated (left to right) Alice Scotchard (England), Susan B. Anthony (United States), Isabella Bogelot (France), Elizabeth Cady Stan

Suffrage parade, New York City, May 4, 1912 (Library of Congress)

National Wormen's Party suffrage envoys

Ida B. Wells, social reformer, anti-lynching activist and women's suffrage advocate

Votes for Women information booth

Suffragists march in New York City, May 3,1913

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

Votes for Women

Suffragists picketing the Wilson White House, 1917

Mary McLeod Bethune, women's right's advocate and suffrage leader during the Jim Crow era

Alice Paul, key second generation women's suffrage activist, celebrating the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (photo dated September 3, 1920)

Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the United States Congress (in 1968)

100 Years After Ratification (from Washington University Magazine)

100 Years After Ratification

Black Women's Suffrage-- Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America's Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is "a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960."

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