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Women's Suffrage in New York

Links to articles from newspapers and magazines

"For three suffragists, a monument well past due," by Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, August 6, 2020

"How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women," by Brent Staples, New York Times, July 28, 2018 

"Women's Suffrage Leaders Left Out Black Women: Despite what you may have learned in school," Evette Dionne, Teen Vogue, August 18, 2017

"How Black suffragists fought for the right to vote and a modicum of respect: Hallie Quinn Brown and other 'homespun heroines,'" Humanities, Summer 2019

"Red, white or pink? Women's rights don't come color-coded, March 10, 2017

“Celebrating women’s suffrage at the struggling Sewall-Belmont House," The Washington Post, March 9, 2015

"Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement," The New York Times, December 29, 2015

"To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America -- A History," by Lillian Faderman, published in the New York Times and includes the first chapter of the book as well as a the New York Times book review​.

TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN’S PARTY SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN by the American Memory at the Library of Congress

 

 

Citations to articles from Scholarly Journals available through the CSI Library

Adickes, S. "Sisters, Not Demons: The Influence of British Suffragists on the American Suffrage Movement." Womens History Review 11, no. 4 (2002): 675-90.

Cogan, Jacob Katz, and Ginzberg, Lori D. "1846 Petition for Woman's Suffrage, New York State Constitutional Convention." Signs 22, no. 2 (1997): 427.

Dubois, Ellen Carol. "Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909." Journal of American History 74 (1987): 34.

Johnson, Joan Marie. "Following the Money: Wealthy Women, Feminism, and the American Suffrage Movement." Journal of Women's History 27, no. 4 (2015): 62-87.

Keith, Shereé. "The Pinkwashing of Alice Paul in HBO 's Iron Jawed Angels." Journal of Popular Culture 47, no. 6 (2014): 1283-295.

Lerner, Elinor, "Jewish Involvement in the New York City Woman Suffrage Movement," American Jewish History, 70 (June 1981): 442-461.

Palczewski, Catherine H. "The Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument, Icons, and Ideographs in 1909 Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcards." Quarterly Journal of Speech 91, no. 4 (2005): 365-94.

Schaffer, Ronald. "The New York City Woman Suffrage Party, 1909-1919." New York History 43, no. 3 (1962): 269-87.