Primary Sources:

Twentienth Century

Find links to other photographs of suffrage demonstrations at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html.  

Read Jane Addams’ 1915 pamphlet, “Why Women Should Vote,” at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1915janeadams-vote.html. 

Find links to four documents written by Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/milit/doc13.htm. 
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/lobby/doc7.htm
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/nysuff/doc11.htm
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wilpf/doc4.htm

Read the text of the 19^th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, at http://www.blueshoenashville.com/19thamendment.html.  

Find links to 23 documents that address the disenfranchisement of African-American women and the National Women’s Party in the early 1920s at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/nwp/.  

Twenty-one original documents at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/nysuff/doclist.htm discuss the problems newly enfranchised women faced with partisan politics.

Link to 22 documents that address the conflict between pacifism and patriotism that women’s organizations faced in the 1920s at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/milit/doclist.htm.

Read about how the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom responded to right-wing attacks after World War I at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/wilpf/doclist.htm.  

Find links to 27 documents that illustrate the contrasting methods and opinions of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, leaders of the birth control movement in the early 20^th-century, at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/birth/doclist.htm. 

Read 27 original documents that describe Mary Ware Dennett’s strategy to legalize birth control at http://womhist.binghamton.edu/mwd/doclist.htm.  

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