Women's Suffrage

1. Secondary Sources

1.1. Bausum, Ann (2004). With Courage and Cloth : Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote. Washington, DC: National Geographic Kids. This book is set up by time period, so it gives a comprehensive account of the suffrage movement from 1848-1920.

1.2. Bjornlund, Lydia (2003). Women of the Suffrage Movement. San Diego, California: Lucent Books. This book will provide information on a variety of women in the suffrage movement. There are chapters on women in the West, African Americans and more. There could be lesser known women described in this book.

1.3. Susan B. Anthony. (2017). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Susan-B-Anthony/272895 This article will provide background on one of the most famous suffragists, Susan B. Anthony.

2. Primary Sources

2.1. Letter from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone urging women to organize and send petitions requesting voting rights. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/306686

2.2. Photograph of women marching in front of the White House demanding the right to vote. Descriptor says women were initially fined, then they were pardoned. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45568320

2.3. This is a petition from a group who was against giving women the right to vote. This document shows that some people were against this movement, and they used the U.S. involvement in World War I as a way to justify that the government not focus on making this change. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7452146