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Women's History — Highlights

This guide is is just to give a snapshot celebrating just a few of the many momentous events in the history of women.
  • Getting Started
  • Women's Suffrage
    • Bay Area Suffragists
  • Women in Politics Toggle Dropdown
    • Local Women in Politics
  • Women in Wartime
  • Women of Silicon Valley
  • SJSU Women's Studies Department
  • Women and Social Movements
  • Researching Women's History

Women's Heritage Museum Records

  • Women's Heritage Museum/International Museum of Women records, 1887-2005 (bulk 1970-1997)
    This collection documents the formation of this museum, which was organized to promote women's history. The records consist of administrative documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and video tapes. The collection contains information on museum exhibits, including California Woman Suffrage 1870-1911, which opened in 1986 and was shown in the California State Capitol and the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. Materials include artifacts that were used in museum exhibits, such as the petticoat of Sarah Bard Field, a California suffragist and poet.
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    This collection is available on the 5th floor of the King Library, in Special Collections & Archives.

Books about Women's Suffrage

  • With Courage and Cloth by Ann Bausum
    Call Number: J 324.623 Bausum
    ISBN: 0792276477
    Publication Date: 2004-09-01
    This title is a good introduction to suffrage for older children and young adults, and is held in the children's department.
  • Century of Struggle by Eleanor Flexner; Ellen Fitzpatrick
    Call Number: HQ1410 .F6 1996
    ISBN: 0674106547
    Publication Date: 1996-03-01
  • Feminism and Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois
    Call Number: HQ1423 .D8
    ISBN: 0801410436
    Publication Date: 1978-01-01
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois
    Call Number: HQ1413.B545 D83 1997
    ISBN: 0300065620
    Publication Date: 1997-10-20
  • New Women of the New South by Marjorie S. Wheeler
    Call Number: JK1896 .W48 1993
    ISBN: 0195075838
    Publication Date: 1993-07-01
  • One Woman, One Vote by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler (Editor)
    Call Number: JK1896 .O54 1995
    ISBN: 0939165260
    Publication Date: 1995-08-15
  • A Woman's Crusade by Mary Walton
    Call Number: JK1899.P38 W35 2010
    ISBN: 9780230611757
    Publication Date: 2010-08-17
  • Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign by Michael L. Keene; Katherine H. Adams
    Call Number: HQ1413.P38 A23 2008
    ISBN: 9780252032202
    Publication Date: 2007-12-11
  • The Right to Vote by Nancy E. Allyn
    Call Number: KF4891 .R54 1987
    ISBN: 0911333517
    Publication Date: 1988-01-01
  • Winning the Vote by Robert P. J. Cooney
    Call Number: JK1896 .C65 2005
    ISBN: 0977009505
    Publication Date: 2005-11-01
    This item is held in Special Collections, on the 5th floor.
  • From Parlor to Prison by Sherna B. Gluck; Bella Abzug (Preface by)
    Call Number: JK1896 .F76 1985
    ISBN: 0853456763
    Publication Date: 1985-01-01

BIPOC Suffragists

Digital Public Library of America's Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection

Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: How Chinese-American Women Helped Shape the Suffrage Movement

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren

Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez Lowther

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Zitkala-Ša

Jovita Idár

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Milagros Benet de Newton

Hermila Galindo

Komako Kimura

Sofia Reyes de Veyra

Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists

Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920

African American Woman Leaders in the Suffrage Movement

The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

Celebrate Women's Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism

Hidden Figures of the Suffrage Movement

Chronology of Worldwide Woman Suffrage

Timeline

Chronology from the International Museum of Women Records, SJSU Special Collections and Archives.

Suffrage Movements Organizational Chart

Chart from the National Women's History Project.Suffrage Chart

Chart from the National Women's History Project.

Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Falls Convention, July 19-20, 1848.

Seneca Falls Resolution

Suffrage since the 1860s

Source: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks

Votes for Women: An Object Lesson

Suffrage Map

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