The women's suffrage movement fought for over 70 years for women's right to vote. The movement began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 where the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments called for equal rights and participation for women. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, suffragists held large protests and parades demanding voting rights. Some suffragists were arrested and subjected to abuse while picketing the White House. By 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote across the United States.

1. THE WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT

2. “
”
THE SPEEDY SUCCESS OF OUR CAUSE
DEPENDS UPON THE ZEALOUS AND
UNTIRING EFFORTS OF BOTH MEN AND
WOMEN, FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE
MONOPOLY OF THE PULPIT, AND FOR
THE SECURING TO WOMAN AN EQUAL
PARTICIPATION WITH MEN IN THE
VARIOUS TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND
COMMERCE.
The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, Seneca Falls, 1848
The Seneca Falls Convention planted the first seeds for women’s suffrage

3. A VINTAGE POSTCARD FEATURING A MAN AND
WOMAN EXCHANGING QUIPS ABOUT WOMEN’S
RIGHTS, CIRCA 1910
Source: Getty Images

4. MEN LOOKING AT
MATERIAL
POSTED IN THE
WINDOW OF THE
NATIONAL ANTI-
SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION
HEADQUARTERS,
CIRCA 1911
Source: Library of Congress

5. REPRESENTATIVES EDWIN WEBB AND STANLEY
BOWDLE, CONGRESSMEN WHO STRUCK DOWN
THE WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT IN 1915
Source: Library of Congress

6. MANY WESTERN STATES WERE THE FIRST
TO GIVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE

7. CROWD OF WOMEN REGISTERING FOR JURY
DUTY AFTER GAINING THE RIGHT TO VOTE,
PORTLAND OREGON, 1912
Source: Wikimedia Commons

8. A SUFFRAGE PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY IN
1912
Source: Library of Congress

9. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION PARADE, CIRCA 1912-1918
Source: New York Public Library

10. A SUFFRAGIST,
“MRS. SUFFERN,”
HOLDS A SIGN
FOR HER CAUSE,
1914
Source: Library of Congress

11. PENNANT USED BY SUFFRAGISTS

12. “YOU ASK US TO
WALK WITH YOU,
DANCE WITH
YOU, MARRY
YOU. WHY DON’T
YOU ASK US TO
VOTE WITH
YOU?”
NOV. 2 1915
Source: New York Public Library

13. MRS. W.L.
PRENDERGAST,
MRS. W.L. COLT,
DORIS STEVENS,
AND ALICE PAUL
CIRCA 1910-
1915
Source: Library of Congress

14. SUFFRAGIST
HARRIOT
STANTON
BLATCH
SPEAKING
TO A LARGE
CROWD OF
MEN ON
WALL
STREET IN
NEW YORK
CITY, CIRCA
1915-1920
Source: Library of Congress

15. NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY SUFFRAGIST
PUBLISHING OFFICE 1916
Source: Harris & Ewing, Wikimedia Commons

16. WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS IN
CLEVELAND, OHIO
Source: Library of Congress

17. SUFFRAGISTS
MARCH IN
OCTOBER 1917,
DISPLAYING
PLACARDS
CONTAINING
THE
SIGNATURES
OF OVER ONE MILLION NEW YORK WOMEN
DEMANDING TO VOTE. Source: Wikimedia Commons

18. THREE
SUFFRAGISTS
CASTING
VOTES IN
NEW YORK
CITY, CIRCA
1917
Source: Library of Congress
New York was the
first Eastern state
to give women
suffrage, on Nov.
6th 1917

19. NATIONAL
WOMEN’S PARTY
PROTEST BANNER,
1917
Source: Courtesy The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum

20. WOMEN PARTICIPATING IN A PICKET LINE AT
THE WHITE HOUSE, NOV. 10 1917
Source: Library of Congress

21. WOMEN PICKETING IN FRONT OF THE
WHITE HOUSE
Source: Library of Congress

22. Source: Library of Congress
Picketers left to right:
• Mrs. Catherine
Martinette, Eagle
Grove, Iowa.
• Mrs. William Kent,
Kentfield, California.
• Miss Mary Bartlett
Dixon, Easton, Md.
• Mrs. C.T. Robertson,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Miss Cora Week, New
York City.
• Miss Amy Juengling,
Buffalo, N.Y.
• Miss Hattie Kruger,
Buffalo, N.Y.
• Miss Belle Sheinberg,
N.Y.C.
• Miss Julia Emory,
Baltimore, Md.

23. LEFT:
OLDEST PICKETER,
MARY NOLAN
AND YOUNGEST
PICKETER,
MATILDA YOUNG
(INSET)
RIGHT:
LUCY BURNS IN
THE OCCOQUAN
WORK HOUSE
Source: Library of CongressSource: Jailed for Freedom,
Doris Stevens

24. WOMEN LEAVING THE
OCCOQUAN WORKHOUSE
AFTER BEING JAILED FOR
PROTESTING AND
SUBJECTED TO HORRIBLE
CONDITIONS
TOP: ELIZABETH KALB ON
A STRETCHER
CENTER: KATE
HEFFELFINGER BROUGHT
TO HEADQUARTERS BY
JAIL ATTENDANT
BOTTOM: DORA LEWIS
BEING ASSISTED FROM
AMBULANCE
Source:
Jailed for
Freedom,
Doris
Stevens

25. WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
BY STATE
AT THE
TIME OF
THE 19TH
AMENDMENT
Source: Library of Virginia

26. RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT
AUGUST 26, 1920
Source: Library of Congress