The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920. Suffragettes were arrested, imprisoned, and otherwise targeted as they fought for voting rights. Black women and ...

Re: Keith Gallagher’s March 14 letter, “Poor understanding of history”: Mr. Gallagher claims that the Congresswomen who dressed in white at the State of the Union in solidarity with the women’s ...

Debbie Elliott reads listener e-mails. Among the topics: Rudolph Giuliani's terrorism-fighting credentials; the derogatory nature of the word "suffragette;" and one listener takes offense to our story ...

Decades before women won the right to vote, suffragists filled city streets and courthouses across America to demand a say in their own future. Armed with little more than banners, marches, and sheer ...

DENVER — It's been more than a century since the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. In Colorado, women fought for and won that right nearly three decades earlier. Still, the push to secure ...

A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...

Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that marks a ...