Collections Spotlight: Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music 

Music has long had a powerful connection to social and political movements. The Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music collection spans the years 1838-1923 and includes over 200 pieces of sheet music written by notable composers and everyday citizens and representing the views of both suffragists and anti-suffragists.

Collection items

Essays

• Music in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
• Highlighted Sheet Music Selections

Learning integration resources

• Singing for Women’s Suffrage classroom integration ideas from the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog
• Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Music
• Tech Tool: Sheet Music Scanner

Related resources

• Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote
• Primary Source Spotlight: Woman Suffrage
• Music Primary Sources & Teaching Resources