The Center for Civic Education podcast playlists (podcasts are part of their @60SecondCivics series).
From the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (March 2023, Women’s History Month);
Fighting For Women’s Suffrage: What Today’s Voters Can Learn from Civic Leaders of the Past
Women’s History Month 2022
Women’s Equality Day* August 26, 2021
Message from Dr. Turner, President of the Board of the League of Women Voters of the United States
*The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York. The observance of Women’s Equality Day not only commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality.
“The Women’s Suffrage Centennial: Impact and Legacy”
Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbcmil.scrp4006701/.
The Declaration of Sentiments was first read in public on July 18, 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (one of the primary authors) in Seneca Falls, NY, at the first Women’s Rights Convention. It was written to mimic Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; . . .
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902). “Declaration of Sentiments,” Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, New York, July 19 and 20, 1848. Printed by John Dick. Rochester, NY: The North Star office of Frederick Douglass, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT: 100 YEARS OF WOMEN VOTING
Developed in collaboration with First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, this online version of
“Fight for the Right: 100 Years of Women Voting”
commemorates the 19th Amendment’s centennial.
The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
The Nineteenth Amendment was officially adopted on August 26, 1920: the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage at both state and national levels.
Suffragist & Suffragette are often used interchangeably although their meanings are actually quite different.
The word "suffragette" was coined by the British press to disparage those fighting for women's right to vote. Some women in Britain co-opted the word to reclaim it from its derogatory use. However, in the U.S., "suffragette" was seen as an insult and not used. Instead, in this country "suffragette" was used by anti-suffragists in their fight to keep women from getting the vote. So, Susan B. Anthony and her colleagues are suffragists, not suffragettes!
Image from The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House eNewsletter
The League of Women Voters was formed February 14, 1920
