May 23, 2013

Today in History: Carrie S. Burnham


Today in History–April 4–the Library of Congress features Carrie S. Burnham, who continued to present her arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the right of women to vote on this day in 1873. Learn more about her appeal and the suffrage movement by visiting the Today in History section, then clicking the links below.

The argument of Carrie S. Burnham before Chief Justice Reed, and Associate Justices Agnew, Sharswood and Mercur, of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, in banc, on the third and fourth of April 1873 Woman’s suffrage primary source set

Women’s Suffrage collections from American Memory

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

PSN suffrage posts

The Seneca Falls Convention

Susan B. Anthony

Jane Addams & Hull House

Lucretia Mott Alice Paul

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