Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage

PSN curated primary source collections

• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie S. Burnham
• Lucretia Mott
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Alice Paul
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Mary Church Terrell
• Sojourner Truth
• Ida B. Wells
• Congress Approves 19th Amendment
• Picketing for Suffrage
• Seneca Falls Convention
• Woman’s Rights Conventions

Library collections

• Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
• Anna E. Dickerson Papers
• By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
• Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks 1897-1911
  • About the Collection: Catch the Suffragists’ Spirit event recording
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party
• Women’s Suffrage in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Collections
• Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music

Suffrage images

• Select images: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage
• Suffragettes
• Suffragists
• Woman suffrage
• Women’s suffrage

More primary source sets

• Women’s Suffrage select primary sources & teacher’s guide
• Woman Suffrage DocsTeach National Archives
• Votes for Women Smithsonian

Online exhibitions

• Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Right to Vote
  • Exhibition opening event recording
• Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence Google Arts & Culture exhibition by the National Portrait Gallery
• Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote National Archives
  • Exhibit tour video
  • Google Arts & Culture online exhibits (6 stories)
• John Bull & Uncle Sam: From Abolition to Equal Rights

Films & event recordings

• Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore 1917
• TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill
• Black Women & the Suffrage Movement
• The Impact of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Today
• Smithsonian 19th Amendment Centennial Virtual Programs
  • 100 Years Later: Women in Charge of the Ballot Box
  • 19: The Musical
  • Ida B. Wells Program & Discussion
  • The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World
  • Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers

Teaching resources

• Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote

Timelines

• One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
• Reformers and Crusaders (1850-1880)
• Women’s Suffrage in the Progressive Era

Library blog posts

• Breathing Life into the Classics: How Suffrage Plays and Tennessee Williams Complicate 20th-Century Theater In the Muse
• From Suffrage Day to Women’s Equality Day: A Brief History of Celebrating August 26 Unfolding History
• Mothers and Daughters in the Movement Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
• Nancy Pelosi on Women’s Suffrage AnniversaryTimeless Stories from the Library
• Polarizing Political Issues: The Anti-Suffrage Rose In the Muse
• Shall Not Be Denied Exhibition: A Single Image Prompts Further Looking Teaching with the Library
• Sheet Music of the Week: Suffragette Edition In the Muse
• Songwriters, Suffragettes, and the Musical Stage In the Muse
• Suffrage Music on Parade In the Muse 
• Suffrage Music on Parade: Part Two In the Muse
• Suffragists in Song Timeless Stories from the Library
• The Suffrage Struggle After The 19th Amendment Timeless Stories from the Library