Further information regarding the woman suffrage movement and early feminists is plentiful. The collections of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study are invaluable, as are two digital collections available to subscribing libraries: Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin, eds., “Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000”; and The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs.
Additional resources include:
The Woman Suffrage Movement
- “By Popular Demand: ‘Votes for Women’ Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920,” Library of Congress
- “Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party,” Library of Congress
- “Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911,” Library of Congress
- “Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,” Public Broadcasting Service
- “Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote,” Rochester Regional Library Council
- “‘This Shall be the Land for Women’: The Struggle for Western Women’s Suffrage, 1860-1920,” Women of the West Museum
- “Dedicated to the Cause: Bryn Mawr Women and the Right to Vote,” Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections
- The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Washington, D.C.
- The Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership, University of Rochester
- “Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912-2012,” Deschutes County (Oregon) Historical Society
- “The Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1854-1910,” Washington Women’s History Consortium, Washington State Historical Society
- “Women’s Suffrage,” Minnesota Historical Society
- “The Woman’s Suffrage Movement,” Wisconsin Historical Society
- “Ahead of Their Time: A Brief History of Woman Suffrage in Illinois,” Illinois State Historical Society
- “Woman Suffrage,” Texas State Historical Association
- “Woman Suffrage in Virginia,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- “Women in Politics: Woman Suffrage,” Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
- “Women’s Suffrage in Massachusetts,” Primary Research
- “Woman Suffrage Movement,” Tennessee Historical Society
- “100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia,” Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
- “Oklahoma Woman Suffrage Association,” Oklahoma Historical Society
- “Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
- “Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association,” Nebraska State Historical Society
- “Votes for Women,” Nebraska Department of Education/Nebraska State Historical Society
- “The Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” Iowa Public Television
- “Mississippi Women and the Woman Suffrage Amendment,” Mississippi Historical Society
- “Woman Suffrage Movement in West Virginia,” West Virginia Division of Culture and History
- “Women’s Suffrage in Utah,” Utah History Encyclopedia
- “Woman’s Suffrage,” Connecticut Humanities Council
- “Pennsylvania Women and the Quest for Woman Suffrage,” Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- “Ohio Woman Suffrage Association,” Ohio Historical Society
- “Woman Suffrage (1890s-1920),” Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
- “Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement,” Worcester Women’s History Project
- “Women’s Suffrage in Iowa,” University of Iowa Libraries
- “Impactful Women of the United States Women’s Suffrage Movement,” TruePeopleSearch
- “The 19th Amendment and the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Parker/Waichman LLP
Early Feminists
The Archive of Women’s Political Communication at the Carrrie Chapman Catt Center, Iowa State University, contains profiles of several suffragists and selected speeches.
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906)
“Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?” (1873)
- Gertrude Buck (1871-1922)
“The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory” (1900)
- Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
“Woman Suffrage is Inevitable” (1917)
Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home and Museum
- Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964)
“Women’s Cause is One and Universal” (1893)
- Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935)
- Margaret Fell (1614-1702)
“Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures”
Speech at the National Woman’s Rights Convention (1852)
- Angelina E. Grimké-Weld
Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
- Sarah Grimké (1792-1873)
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
“Woman’s Political Future” (1893)
- Alice Paul (1885-1977)
- Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919)
- Maria W. Miller Stewart (1803-1897)
“Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” (1832)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
“Address on Women’s Rights” (1848)
“Our Girls” (1880)
- Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
- Mabel Vernon (1883-1975)
“The Picketing Campaign Nears Victory” (1917)
- Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)