Secondary Sources
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/NoLady/Womens-Rights/ Everything about the Women’s Rights Movement and all the challenges they faced. http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/ti meline/progress/suffrage/ How the Women’s Rights Movement was created and how it evolved. https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/womens-rights-leaders-1800-1900.htm All the leaders of The Women’s Rights Movement. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html A timeline about everything that happened in The Women’s Rights Movement. http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Files/Documents/Timelines/WomensRightstimeli ne.pdf A timeline of women from 1769 to 2009. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage Explains the 19th amendment for women’s suffrage. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/army-nurses.html Explains the Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War letter to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOPsBRUZMU8 A YouTube video about Susan B. Anthony.
Primary Sources
The Declaration of Sentiments- A document signed by 68 women and 32 men at the first women’s right convention in 1848. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution- the amendment that allows women to vote. Memorial to Congress from The American Woman Suffrage Association
Alice Paul (second from left), chairwoman of the militant National Woman’s Party, and officers of the group in front of their Washington headquarters, circa 1920s. They are holding a banner emblazoned with a quote from suffragist Susan B. Anthony: "No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex."
Mary O. Stevens, secretary and press correspondent of the Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, in 1917 she asked the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to help the cause of woman suffrage by explaining, "My father trained me in my childhood days to expect this right. I have given my help to the agitation, and work[ed] for its coming good many years."
Petition for Woman Suffrage Signed by Frederick Douglass, Jr. 1877 was to prohibit the several States from Disfranchising United States Citizens on the of Sex."
This was a memorial written to the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States. It was written on February 6, 1872 by the American Women's Suffrage Association. Their goal was to convince the Senate and House of Representatives to enact a law that allows all women citizens to vote. Also, they wanted the legislative branch to take necessary actions to update the Federal Constitution with a new amendment that prohibits political privileges by sex.