Huge numbers of visitors from the East, where no State has equal suffrage, are visiting the Exposition here in San Francisco.
May 7, 1894: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriot Stanton Blatch Lead Mass Suffrage Meeting
There certainly seem to be plenty of people willing to do whatever it takes to remove a single word from the New York State Constitution, which presently grants the right to vote to “every male citizen of the age of 21 years.”
May 6, 1911: NYC Suffrage Parade Largely Exceeds Expectations
Anyone who still doubts that the woman suffrage movement is rapidly gaining support must have been a long way from New York’s Fifth Avenue earlier today.
May 5, 1916: Attendees Celebrating Emma Goldman’s Release from Prison Storm Carnegie Hall Stage for Birth Control Information
Rose Pastor Stokes has just caused a sensation in Carnegie Hall by distributing small slips of paper containing birth control information, a clear violation of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code.
Carolyn Maloney Leads Charge for National Women’s History Museum
Maloney has been working to establish the museum for nearly 20 years, first introducing a bill in 1997.
May 2, 1913: President Theodore Roosevelt Speaks Out for Suffrage
Theodore Roosevelt joined the ranks of suffrage speakers tonight, and left no doubt he will bring the same enthusiasm and stirring oratory to the “Votes for Women” campaign which have characterized his efforts for other causes he passionately supports.
May 1, 1895: New York State Investigates Labor Conditions for Women and Children
A special report investigating conditions of female and child labor in New York City was submitted today, and it paints a bleak portrait of working conditions for those who earn their living at department store counters, in factories, or through home work.
April 30, 1915: New York Senator Remains Opposed to Suffrage Following Meeting with Movement Leaders
There was a quite frustrating and somewhat heated exchange of views this afternoon in Washington, D.C., as Inez Milholland Boissevain, Doris Stevens, and several other members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage met with Senator James O’Gorman, Democrat of New York.
April 29, 1905: NYC Teachers Take Action for Equal Pay
“Equal pay for equal work” is the demand of an insurgent group of women teachers led by Anna Louise Goessling of P.S. 44 in Brooklyn, New York.
April 28, 1924: League of Women Voters Convenes In Expectation of Upcoming Elections
“Keep your backbone at the conventions. When they want your vote for a candidate of whom you don’t approve, don’t give it, even for a unit vote. Let the men see that women are going to help to lead them to the right kind of platforms and the right kind of candidates.”
April 25, 1910: Los Angeles Makes History with First Female Deputy District Attorney
Clara Shortridge Foltz was sworn in today in Los Angeles, California, as the first female Deputy District Attorney in U.S. history
Remembering the March for Women’s Lives, Ten Years Later
Alice Cohan was the Director of the 2004 March for Women’s Lives. These are some of her memories of putting together the historic march.
GALLERY: The March for Women’s Lives
Ten years ago today, the feminist movement made history with the largest march ever on the National Mall, and ten years ago today, the feminist movement proved that we were a force to be reckoned with. If there’s any memory worth holding onto, that’s certainly one of them.
April 23, 1963: Major National Endorsement Shifts Dialogue on Birth Control and Contraception
A major advance today in the fight for birth control, as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists officially endorsed giving contraceptive information to those who request it.
April 22, 1919: Suffrage Victories Won Across the Nation
There are now about 15,500,000 women eligible to vote for the next President – a number just 2,000,000 less that the total number of votes actually cast for the two major party candidates in the 1916 Presidential election.
April 21, 1913: Suffrage Debates Continue As Legislators, Religious Figures Speak Out
This certainly has been a newsworthy day for woman suffrage!
April 18, 1910: NAWSA Finalizes Re-Election of Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, Stages a Procession to Capitol Hill
Today was a busy one for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
April 17, 1894: Empire State Suffragists Build Momentum for Federal Action
Victory for the woman suffrage movement – and equal pay for equal work – must rapidly be approaching if today is any example of the momentum that’s now being generated in their favor.
April 16, 1927: NYC Legal Sorority Seeks to Create A List of Female-Friendly Law Firms
Marx’s project will be extremely valuable to the new graduates, who won’t have to repeat her experience. When she canvassed 175 law firms while looking for a job after graduation, all but 25 said they didn’t want a woman lawyer in the office, and though the rest held out some hope, they had no vacancies.
April 15, 1929: NYC Police Raid Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
The Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau’s clinic was raided this morning by New York City police, who arrested two doctors and three nurses, then seized massive amounts of “evidence,” including confidential patient records.