Women's Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment

National Archives guide to the house records of the Judiciary Committee and related committees on issues of "woman suffrage".

This guide compiles Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and a print bibliography related to the women's suffrage movement.

Pictures from the Women's Suffrage Movement

One hundred years ago, the struggle to win the right to vote for women was reaching its goal. In May 1919, the House of Representatives passed what was to become the 19th Amendment, which was ratified by three-fourths of the states on August 18, 1920. The National Archives will honor the centennial with exhibits, programs, and special events.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution – guaranteeing women the right to vote. Some suffragists used more confrontational tactics such as picketing, silent vigils, and hunger strikes.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938.

Information about women's suffrage within the context of the women's rights movement of the time.

Article from the National Park Service.

The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. Hosted by the Digital Public Library of America.

Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage - Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress

From the digital collections of the Library of Congress.