August 18th, 2020 marked the 100 year anniversary of the 19th Amendment (Women’s right to vote)! To celebrate this centennial, the Richmond Museum of History & Culture staff have compiled a list of resources detailing some of the many women-led accomplishment and contributions over the last 100 years.
Click linked titles to begin your exploration!
Online Exhibits
- Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence
- Standing Up for Change: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Poetics of Protest: An Exhibit of Feminist Resistance1
- Suffrage Movement Timeline (1840 – 1920) by the National Women’s History Museum
- New Beginnings: Immigrant Women and The American Experience by the National Women’s History Museum
- 10 Inspiring Latinas Who’ve Made History
- Native Americans and American Indians: How the Iroquois and other Indian Nations Helped to Shape the Vision of Women as Equals
- LGBTQ Women’s Political History in the United States
Blog Posts
- Not All Women Gained the Vote in 1920
- Votes for Women means Votes for Black Women
- Famous & Inspirational Black Women in History
- 9 AAPI Women Who Paved the Way in Political Activism
- Celebrating Asian American Women by National Women’s History Museum2
- Mabel Ping-Hua Lee: How Chinese-American Women Helped Shape the Suffrage Movement
- Suffrage in Spanish: Hispanic Women and the Fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico
- How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights Movement
Videos
- “Poetics of Protest”. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2024-12-18. ↩︎
- “Celebrating Asian American Women”. Archived from the original on 2018-05-06. Retrieved 2024-12-18. ↩︎
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