Mission statement for Suffrage Coalition Inc.’s Project:Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Culture Center - Locate and preserve the epic history of the movement that brought democracy to the other half of our citizens. Use accurate, immersive storytelling to inspire future generations to value their rights and faithfully perform their duties as citizens.
Two hundred and four years ago today, little note was taken of the birth of a Quaker girl who later spearheaded the single most sweeping social and political change in this country since its founding—more than half all Americans who had been resolutely excluded won a...
–October 1915 Parade October of 1915 brought to the streets of NYC one of the most important parades in support of woman suffrage. For a day, attention turned away from the ongoing world war and toward the long struggle here for equality for more than half its...
July was the month the world of women began to change forever. It is hard to believe that for centuries before July of 1848, women had been, with rare exception, treated as the property of the men in their lives, incapable of serious thinking, unworthy of...
Seventy-one years after the Seneca Falls Convention, on May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives finally approved the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. The Senate followed on June 4, 1919. Congress had finally approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states,...
After the passage of woman suffrage amendments by western states, the national suffrage movement floundered. It was Alice Paul that gave the national suffrage movement a new burst of energy. By drawing attention to the inequality of American women with...
In the traditional telling of the story of how Tennessee became “the Perfect 36”, the story ended when State Representative Harry S. Burn voted in support of ratification. Although bells rang out across the United States as word of Tennessee’s...
