On July 19, 1848, a modest Wesleyan chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, became the unlikely cradle of a social revolution. Over two humid summer days, nearly 300 women and men gathered to launch what would become the organized women’s rights movement in the…
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On June 4, 1919, the United States Congress approved the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, formally initiating the final phase of a political struggle that had spanned more than seven decades. With the stroke of a legislative pen, Congress did not merely advance a…
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The Mud March of February 9, 1907, was the first large-scale demonstration organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and marked a crucial moment in the fight for women’s voting rights in Britain. While not the first suffrage protest, its unprecedented…
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