Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts is performing Bitter Flower, a play that examines the racism of the white suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written by ...

NEWBURY TWP., Ohio — A Geauga County landmark that played a pivotal role in Ohio’s early women’s suffrage movement will be the site of a Women’s Equality Day celebration later this month as community ...

In August, the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, turned a century year old. When it was ratified, it proclaimed “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ...

In the first episode of “The Fight,“ we talked about the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States. The early advocates for suffrage were also abolitionists fighting for the end ...

It's a story set more than a hundred years ago, yet its message echoes with a modern-day resonance. "Suffragette" (in theaters Friday) follows members of the British suffrage movement in the early ...

Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...

The National Woman's Party, an American political organization founded in the early 1900s, adopted white as one of its colors and called it the "emblem of purity" Style + Beauty Assistant, PEOPLE Vice ...

The upper ranks of Manhattan society were never welcoming to Mrs. Frank Leslie, who charmed her future publishing-empire hubby (inset) at 25 while already married. Granger Historical Picture Archives ...