Links: Women's Rights Movement

150th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Movement
extensive chronology, resources, inspiration! From 1848 – 1998.
URL: www.legacy98.org

Declaration of Sentiments
In 1848, the world’s first Women’s Rights Convention met in Seneca Falls, New York. Read the document they issued, and the names of the people who daringly signed it.
URL: www.rochester.edu/SBA/declare.html

The Emancipation of Women: 1750-1920
bounty of information on British suffragists and their organizations, including biographies with portraits, databases of primary sources, and bibliography.
URL: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm

International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism
a growing archive of visual and textual evidence and oral witness about the women’s liberation movement from 1966 to 1979.
URL: wenet.net/~celesten/2ndwave.html

Matilda Joslyn Gage
Gage was a 19th century feminist theorist and activist, author, historian of women, abolitionist, and lecturer. Site includes information on her life and times, speeches, excerpts from her writings, biographies of her contemporaries.
URL: www.pinn.net/~sunshine/gage/mjg.html

The Women’s Rights Movement: The Lucretia Coffin Mott Project
biographical information about this women’s rights and anti-slavery leader (1793-1880).
URL: www.mott.pomona.edu/index.htm

National American Woman Suffrage Association
1848-1921. Related holdings of the Library of Congress.
URL: lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawsa.html

National Museum of Women’s History
the museum’s first “virtual exhibit” examines the development of the culture and imagery the evolved to promote women’s voting rights in the U.S.: extensive collection of banners, buttons, documents.
URL: www.nmwh.org/exhibits/exhibit_frames.html

National Woman’s Party
founded by the radical activist Alice Paul to win the vote for women, the NWP has a fascinating history, told at this site.
URL: www.natwomanparty.org

Report on the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
read about the proceedings of the convention and the “Declaration of Sentiments” that launched the Women’s Rights Movement.
URL: www.ointeractive.com/nmwh/exhibits/1848report.html

Suffragists Oral History Project
the Bancroft Library collected oral histories of twelve leaders and participants in the woman suffrage movement, now available on-line. Full-length histories of Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Jeannette Rankin, Mabel Vernon, and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher. Searchable transcripts are on-line.
URL: library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html

Susan B. Anthony University Center
provides information related to upstate New York, birth of the American women’s rights movement. Resources, sites, events, and historic background information.
URL: www.rochester.edu:80/SBA

Timeline of Women’s Suffrage
a detailed timeline of the women’s suffrage movement. American Women’s 72-year fight to win the vote.
URL: lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html

Votes for Women
The most comprehensive site about women’s campaign to win the vote in the United States, including photos, biographies, essays, speeches, documents, and links galore.
URL: http://www.huntington.org/vfw/main.html

“Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
38 pictures from the Library of Congress, including portraits, parades, picketers, cartoons, and an anti-suffrage display.
URL: lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Women’s Rights National Historic Park
photos, graphic images and primary documents relating to the first Women’s Rights Convention (1848); historic sites related to the movement and biographies of its leaders.
URL: www.nps.gov/wori

Worcester Women’s History Project
the first national convention called to discuss women’s rights was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850. Read proceedings of the convention, newspaper accounts, and participants’ critique of the meeting. Also participants’ ensuing discussion of women’s rights plus various and changing biographies of activists.
URL: worcesterwomen.com

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