A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary conversations about women’s suffrage.

Vintage political art posters show how protesters have long used July 4th to demand civil rights, social change and economic ...

In 1848, the Chartist Movement presented a petition to Parliament, demanding that all adult men, regardless of social ...

White women eventually gained suffrage in 1920, but it would be another half-century before all women’s voting rights were protected nationwide with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The home had thick walls of log and stone and "old-fashioned open fire places," with a sloping roof, green shutters and long porches "shaded by grape and wisteria." ...

CHARLES CITY — Rhoda McCartney grew up 8 miles west of the rural Charles City home where women’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt lived as a girl. “It was a curiosity spot for me,” said ...

Radical suffragists—or suffragettes, based on the second interpretation—were particularly powerful in Great Britain; they became the most famous of the female suffragists due to their radical tactics, ...

Kate Scholer was already excited to cast her first vote for a woman presidential nominee when her mom gave her the good news: She can do it at Susan B. Anthony’s house.

In Winckley Square, a blue plaque marks the home of Edith Rigby, a prominent sufragette who was friends with the Pankurst sisters, and devoted her life to creating a fairer world for the women of the ...

In exclusive archive BBC interviews, two activists look back at their turbulent time fighting for women's rights – from window-smashing and arson to hunger strikes and force feeding.

Author Wendy Rouse unearthed the experience of local queer suffragettes in her book, "Public Spaces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement." In this interview with WBUR's Morning ...

A blue plaque honouring a suffragette Indian princess who grew up in Suffolk has been unveiled at her former London home. Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of the last ruler of the Sikh empire, ...