Research Guides: Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage: Articles, Essays, & Websites

Series: The 19th Amendment and Women's Access to the Vote Across America

The National Park Service is often an excellent source for high-quality history articles. Their series, The 19th Amendment and Women's Access to the Vote Across America, looks at the fight for women's suffrage in various areas.

The National Park Service also created On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women's Fight for the Vote, a series that looks at important suffragists and the battles they fought.

5 Black Suffragists Who Fought for the 19th Amendment
From The History Channel.
African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement
From Turning Point Suffragist Memorial.
Black Women & The Suffrage Movement
From Wesleyan University.
Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection
From the Digital Public Library of America.
Black Women's Suffrage Timeline
From the Digital Public Library of America.
Crusade for the Vote
From the National Women's History Museum
How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect
National Endowment for the Humanities article.
The Long 19th Amendment Project
Archives and collections from Harvard University
Massachusetts Debates A Woman's Right to Vote
From the Massachusetts Historical Society, but not specific to Massachusetts
National Association of Colored Women
From the National Women's History Museum.
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
National Archives online exhibit.
Suffrage at 100
From the New York Times
Suffrage Movement Timeline
From the National Women's History Museum.
Votes for Women
Smithsonian online exhibit.
Women's Power, Women's Vote
Texas State Library and Archives Commission online exhibit.
Women's Suffrage
Library of Congress primary source set.
Women of Color and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
From the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.

Minor v. Happersett
Supreme Court ruling: "Being unanimously of the opinion that the Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one. . ."

The Agitators: The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
The Agitators tells of the enduring but tempestuous friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Great allies? Yes. And at times, great adversaries.
And Nothing Less
Hosts Rosario Dawson and Retta guide us through this seven-part series from the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and PRX, bringing us the stories we didn’t learn in our history books.