Women suffrage

Download this stock image: Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. By the end of the 19th century, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming had enfranchised women after effort by the suffrage associations at the state level. During the beginning of the 20th - G169J2 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Women's fight for equality is nothing new: A hundred years ago, brave women gathered to march and demand their right to vote and, unsurprisingly, Bay Area ladies were on the front lines. Take a look at the women's suffrage movement in San Francisco during the 1800s and early 1900s.

The sobering collection of postcards, released by the University of Northern Iowa, has captured the war waged on women during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Women's suffrage was finally achieved in the U.S. after decades of campaigning.

Adela Pankhurst Walsh (1885 - 1961) giving a speech outside The Carrington Press Printers, New South Wales, January 28, 1941 (the caption under the photo appears to be wrong) Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. — in Sydney, Australia.

FLAG and BROOM HANDLE: An American suffragette carries a symbolic American flag attached to a broom handle, circa 1917.

Is there a 'hidden history' of black and ethnic minority women in the British women's suffrage campaign?

Improve your story with characters that not only step out of the box, but kick it across the room.

The fascinating photographs depict the inspired tactics used by the British and American suffrage movement during this time, such as hunger strikes and demonstrations.