In collaboration with the WSCC, the National Park Service is the forever home of these articles, as well as the three podcast series, The Magic Sash, And Nothing Less, and The Agitators.
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On Their ShouldersFailure is ImpossibleHarry T. Burn had a secret. Everyone assumed he was an “anti,” meaning he would vote against ratification of the 19th Amendment...
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On Their ShouldersPrequel: Women's Suffrage Before 1848While Seneca Falls remains an important marker in women’s suffrage history, women had already long been agitating for this basic right.
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On Their ShouldersThe Great Suffrage Parade of 1913On the afternoon of March 3, 1913, the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, thousands of suffragists gathered in DC.
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On Their ShouldersNoble Endeavor: Ida B Wells and SuffrageOn March 3, 1913, the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was in a DC drill rehearsal hall with 64 other suffragists.
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On Their ShouldersMormonism and Women's SuffrageIn 1870, women in territorial Utah became among the tiny minority of nineteenth-century American women to win the right to vote.
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On Their ShouldersPaul and Wilson Battle for Liberty“Where are all the people?” Wilson asked as he peered out the car window. “On the Avenue, watching the suffrage parade.”
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On Their ShouldersNative American Women and Woman Suffrage“Never was justice more perfect; never was civilization higher,” suffrage leader Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote about the Haudenosaunee.
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On Their ShouldersSusan B. AnthonyHow did Susan B. Anthony become the most recognizable suffragist?
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On Their ShouldersHow Chinese Women Shaped SuffrageThough she could not vote, Mabel Lee played an important part in the fight for voting rights both in the United States and in China.
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On Their ShouldersJeannette Rankin: One Woman One VoteOnly one woman in American history – Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin – ever cast a ballot in support of the 19th Amendment.
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On Their ShouldersInfluence of the British Suffragists“I am what you call a hooligan,” Emmeline Pankhurst announced to the standing-room only crowd of women packed into Carnegie Hall.
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On Their ShouldersMary McLeod Bethune & Universal SuffrageMary McLeod Bethune -- educator, club woman, and stateswoman -- asserted the universality of equality in and through all things.
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On Their ShouldersFraught Friendship: Douglass and AnthonyJust hours before his death, Anthony and Douglass had been in the same room in Washington, DC.
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On Their ShouldersQueer History of the Suffrage MovementThe women’s suffrage movement allowed women to defy the gendered expectations of their day.
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On Their ShouldersShould We Care What The Men Did?During the 1910s, women cared deeply about the assistance of men in their fight for suffrage.
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On Their ShouldersHispanic Women and the Suffrage FightIn October of 1915, suffragists of Santa Fe, NM took to the streets to make "a public act of faith in the cause of woman suffrage."
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On Their ShouldersThe Life of Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton was the leading activist-intellectual of the nineteenth-century movement that demanded women’s rights.
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On Their ShouldersAlice Paul's CrusadeHow a young Quaker from New Jersey changed the national conversation and got the vote.
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On Their ShouldersMary Church Terrell: Black SuffragistBorn a slave in Memphis, Tennessee in 1863 during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell became a civil rights activist and suffragist leader.
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On Their ShouldersCarrie Chapman Catt's Lifelong FightWhen Carrie Lane Chapman Catt was 13-years-old and living in rural Iowa she witnessed something that helped chart the rest of her life.
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On Their ShouldersZitkala-Ša: Advocate for the Indian VoteZitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) was both a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Nation. She did not have to choose.
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On Their ShouldersNemesis: The South and the 19thThe South was the nemesis of the woman suffrage movement, the impassioned adversary that, in 1920, almost kept the 19th from ratification.
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On Their ShouldersThe Final, Desperate Battle in TennesseeEveryone knew that Tennessee was a dangerous place to stage the decisive battle for the 19th Amendment, but the suffragists had no choice.
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On Their ShouldersMichelle Duster: A Centennial ReflectionMichelle Duster, the great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, reflects on the 19th Amendment Centennial.
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On Their ShouldersThe Significance of the 19th Amendment“The Secretary has signed the proclamation,” the Secretary of State’s office told Carrie Chapman Catt over the phone on August 26, 1920.
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On Their ShouldersStories of Women's Fight for the VoteThe full series of articles are presented here as "chapters." It is the same content, presented in a different format.
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19th Amendment PodcastsFind the 3 podcasts and listener resources presented by the WSCC, PRX, and the NPS here: "Agitators," "And Nothing Less," and "Magic Sash."
Last updated: December 15, 2020