This item consists of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which was ratified July 1, 1971, and extends the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age and older.
This delegation of officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association received from President Wilson a memorial to the French women in which he advocates the federal woman suffrage amendment. The picture was made on steps leading to…
Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows crowd outside the White House, Washington, District of Columbia, on July 14,1917, just before the sixteen woman suffrage pickets were arrested.
Women munition workers urge President to support suffrage bill. Six women war workers, representing thousands of others, were delegated to see President Wilson and urge him to support the motion for an immediate passage of the federal suffrage…
Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading the sixteen members of the National Womans Party who participated in the picketing demonstration in front of the…
This illustration entitled, "Catching the Speaker's Eye In The Future News Note: Colorado Suffragettes Are Planning a Campaign to Elect a Woman to Congress Next Year", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on…
This cartoon depicts the two big winners on Election Day, 1917, in New York. Voters adopted a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution, a measure backed by Tammany Hall, New York City's Democratic political machine. On the same day,…