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Press Kit: Images from Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote

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Joint Resolution Proposing the 19th Amendment (National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Government)

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Tennessee's ratification of the 19th Amendment (National Archives, General Records of the United States Government)

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An 1873 petition signed by NWSA founders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony urging Congress to pass legislation giving women the right to vote. (National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate)

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Petition signed by Frederick Douglass, Jr., and Rosetta Douglass (Mrs. Nathan Sprague) asking Congress “to prohibit states from disfranchising United States citizens on account of sex.” (National Archives, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives)

 

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A political cartoon by Cllifford Berryman shows a suffragist with the “Tammany Tiger,” which represents New York City’s political machine. (National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate)

 

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Passers-by at the Headquarters of National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, ca. 1919. (National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency)

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Suffragists with poster and bonfire at the White House, Washington, DC, 1918. (National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency)

 

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A 1940s booklet identifies many of the discriminatory laws and practices that Southern states used to prevent black people from voting. (National Archives, Records of the Women's Bureau)

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In 1929, the president of the Asociacion Puertorriqueña de Mujeres Sufragistas, Ana López de Vélez, wrote to President Calvin Coolidge, urging his support for enfranchising Puerto Rican women. (National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Insular Affairs)

 

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Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, marched with other female lawyers in the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, DC. She is pictured in her ca. 1911 personnel file photo for the Office of Indian Affairs. (National Archives at St. Louis, Records of the U.S. Civil Service Commission)

 

 

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