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Diversity Guides: Women's History
August 26th is Women's Equality Day

The Libraries' Diversity Committee is commemorating the 85th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendement
by presenting:

IRON JAWED ANGELS
August 31, 2005  7:00p.m.
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodeges Library

<watch the trailer>

 

Women's Suffrage Movement | Reference Sources | More Resource Guides | Organizations

Women's Suffrage Movement

Suffragists Speak: 1910-1920
a multimedia resource by UC Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems; contains photos, oral histories, songs, and a timeline.

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
Sponsored by the National Women's History Project; contains a detailed timeline, and overview of the movement and a directory of women's history organizations.

Women's Rights
A resource by the National Parks Service that highlights historical sites in the Women's Rights Movement.

Not For Ourselves Alone
A wonderful multi-media exhibit that supplements the PBS film by the same title

 

Women's Suffrage: The Tennessee Connection

Tennessee Ratification Document [image]

The perfect 36 : Tennessee delivers woman suffrage [excerpt]
Hodges Library: JK1911.T2Y45 1998

Votes for women! : the woman suffrage movement in Tennessee, the South, and the nation
Hodges Library: JK1911.T2V68 1995

The woman suffrage movement in Tennessee
Hodges Library: JK1911.T2T3

Political Culture and Imagery of American Women Suffrage
An exhibit of photos and artifacts; sponsored by the National Women's History Museum

Find more resources in the UT Library Catalog:
Suffragists--United States--History
Women--Suffrage--United States--History


Reference Sources

The ABC-CLIO companion to women's progress in America
Elizabeth Frost-Knappman.
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1410.F76 1994

The book of women's firsts: break-through achievements of almost 1,000 American women
Phyllis J. Read
Hodges Library/ Reference CT3260.R428 1992

Encyclopedia of women in American history
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1410.E53 2002

Great lives from history. American women series
Frank N. Magill, editor.
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1412.G74 1995

A history of women in the United States: state-by-state reference
Doris L. Weatherford, general editor.
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1410.H58 2004

United States government documents on women, 1800-1990: a comprehensive bibliography
Mary Ellen Huls
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1410.H84 1993

What American women did, 1789-1920: a year-by-year reference
Linda Miles Coppens
Hodges Library/ Reference HQ1154.C665 2001

Women's periodicals in the United States: social and political issues
Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, editors
Hodges Library/ Reference PN4879.W614 1996

From suffrage to the Senate : an encyclopedia of American women in politics
Suzanne O'Dea Schenken
Hodges Reference / Reference: HQ1236.5.U6 S32 1999

 

Additional Resource Guides

Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
by the MTSU Library

Women's History Resources
by University of Wisconsin Library

Women's History
by the Women's Studies Section of the American Library Association

Organizations

National Council of Women's Organizations

Women's College Coalition

American Association of Academic Women

Women's Organizations (collected by the University of Wisconsin Library)

 


The 19th Amendment was ratified on
August 26, 1920

In the Libraries:


Original Documents

Flyer:
Some Reasons Why We Oppose Votes for Women [1894]



Flyer:
Do Women's Want The Vote?


Article:
Anti-Suffragettes Do Not Intend to Have Ballot Forced on Majority Because Minority Wants It

Photo:
Women's March from the 1915 New York Times

Flyer:
Official Program Women's Suffrage Procession, March 3, 1913

Photo:
Button and Ribbon from the 31st Annual Convention of the NAWSA [1899]

Document:
Proceedings of the Women's Rights Convention [1850]

Document:
The First Convention
ever called to discuss the Civil and Political Rights of Women [1848]

Audio:
Suffrage Songs



Audio:
Interviews

:Search for Yourself: articles in the
New York Times
Historical Archive

[UT only]