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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Women's Equality Day - August 26th


celebrating the anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the US

women vote ratification image
Alice Paul, leader of the National Woman’s Party, unfurled the completed Ratification Flag in Washington D.C. in August 1920 to celebrate passage of the 19th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women nationally the right to vote. (Credit: Library of Congress/”Winning the Vote”) Courtesy of
http://www.americangraphicpress.com/images/index.html


National Women's History Museum Presents: Rights for Women: the Suffrage Movement and it's Leaders
http://www.nwhm.org/RightsforWomen/newcentury.html


Florida Women Get the Vote, by Kenneth R. JohnsonFlorida Historical Quarterly, V48 no3, January 1970
http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLData/SN/SN00154113/0048_003/48no3.pdf


Museum of Florida History: Women's Equality Day August 26th
http://www.museumoffloridahistory.com/equality.cfm


From the Library of Congress

One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An OverviewTimeline from 1776 to 1923
Woman Suffrage ~ Books and Pamphlets ~ 1848-1921
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html


Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Woman Suffrage ~ Photographs and Prints ~ 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920


Woman Suffrage ~ Photographs ~ 1875-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party Woman


Suffrage ~ Scrapbooks ~ 1897-1911

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/millerscrapbooks/
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911


Winning the Vote for Women (April 15, 1996) LOC Information Bulletin
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9607/suffrage.html

A History of Women's SuffrageScholastic Teaching Resources
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/history.htm

Recent Books in the TCC Collection

Suffragists in an imperial age : U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929

Republican women : feminism and conservatism from suffrage through the rise of the new right

How the vote was won : woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914

A reform against nature: woman suffrage and the rethinking of American citizenship, 1840-1920

Votes for women : the struggle for suffrage revisited

A history of the American suffragist movement