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New materials, new way to work, and a new exhibition!
"Suffrage: Women Fight For the Vote"
Today we're releasing the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna E. Dickinson for you to transcribe and review, in celebration of the centenary of women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment. The struggle for women’s voting rights—considered the largest reform movement in American history—lasted more than seven decades, from 1848 to 1920. Determined women organized, lectured, petitioned, lobbied, paraded, picketed, and went to jail for daring to demand the right to vote.
In addition to these four new Campaigns we've added new functionality called "Topic", which allows us to group materials thematically. You'll now find the papers of Mary Church Terrell, advocate for the rights of African Americans and universal suffrage, alongside the papers of other leading suffragists such as Stanton and Anthony, whose works were we've just added.
Explore the daily lives of these determined leaders and their stories of hope, perseverance, sacrifice, courage, creativity, and conviction. Learn how everyday Americans and people around the world participated in and reacted to the suffrage movement. You can choose from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, address and appointment books, and much more!
Find your perfect page
You can use the exciting new activity prototype to search for suffrage papers to transcribe or review. Log in and search for materials by Campaign or Topic. Further instructions about the prototype are available here, and you can fill out this survey to tell us about your experience.
A new exhibition
The "Suffrage: Women Fight For the Vote" Topic is launching the same day as the Library of Congress's fantastic new exhibition, "Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote", which tells the story of the suffrage movement through documents, images, and objects housed at the Library. The exhibition will be open from June 2019 to September 2020 and is free to visit. Watch out for free tours and talks, and learn more about this key period of American history.
