Secondary Source
The Unyielding Search for the Original Declaration of Sentiments
The New York TImes
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Newspapers, Web-based
The New York Times on February 8, 2019 reviewed the search started during the Obama administration to find the original Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, which […] Read More
Secondary Source
When Political Women Wear White – Time, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN
What the act is meant to symbolize
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines, Newspapers, Television, Web-based
The decision of Democratic US congresswomen to don white for the State of the Union address February 5, 2019 occasioned stories about the color’s symbolism, notably in the Washington Post, […] Read More
Primary Source
CNN: “Red, White or Pink? Women’s Rights Don’t Come Color-Coded” and MOOCS with Alice Kessler-Harris
Louise Bernikow, March 10, 2017
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Television, Web-based
March 10, 2017 For a CNN opinion column, author Louise Bernikow looks at the colors ascribed to the fight for women’s rights and argues that although she understands the importance […] Read More
Secondary Source
Brent Staples in the New York Times on African-American Women and the Suffrage Movement
with response from the League of Women Voters
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Essay, Newspapers
Brent Staples, a member of the New York Times editorial board, expands on ideas first presented in July (“How the Suffrage *Movement Betrayed Black Women,”) in this piece headlined “When the […] Read More
Primary Source
Essence Magazine: “The Suffrage Movement Included More Than Two Women and So Should the Monuments”
Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Essay, Magazines, Monuments, Web-based
Essence Magazine offered this opinion column by Michelle Duster, the great granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, an important suffragist and civil rights leader. New York State has approved monuments […] Read More
Resource Center
Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative Tool Kit – 2020 Women’s Centennial Initiative
Take a look at this celebration tool kit of ideas for marking the 100th anniversary of the Nineteen Amendment to the US Constitution. Download the PDF here. Prepared by the […] Read More