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The British Suffragette Movement took their name from "suffrage," which means "the right to vote"; the American movement often took the name "suffragist" to be more inclusive (both genders could be suffragists) and to block pejorative and dismissive uses of "suffragette."
Timelines:
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Timeline: "One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview" compiled by E. Susan Barber with additions by Barbara Orbach Natanson.
Available at :http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html
Major Figures:
American Suffragists
* Susan B Anthony
* Lucy Burns
* Carrie Chapman Catt
* Alice Paul
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton
* Ida B. Wells
* Jeannette Rankin
* Lucretia Mott
British Suffragettes
* Mary Richordson
* Rosa May Billinghurst
* Jane Ellen Harrison
* Annie Kenney
* Grace Kimmins
* Christabel Pankhurst
* Emmeline Pankhurst
* Sylvia Pankhurst
* Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
* Emily Wilding Davison
Encyclopedias and Selected Histories:
Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Women's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Cudahy Main Stacks HQ 1410 .F6 1996
Lieve, Dr. Jacobs. Politics and friendship: letters from the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1902-1942. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c.1990
Lewis Main Stacks JN 5947 .L5413 1990
Library of Congress. Votes for Women: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage
Selected Images From the Collections of the Library of Congress
Available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/076_vfw.html
Oxford Companion to United States History (Quick Search: Suffrage)
Available at: http://www.oxfordreference.com
XreferPlus: (Search: Suffrage) Available at: http://www.xreferplus.com/allbooks.jsp
Research Guides:
Full Text Docs and Primary Sources:
Historical Newspapers:
Secondary Resources
Books
Pegasus (http://pegasus.luc.edu/) subject search:
Women--Suffrage-- United States--History;
Suffragists-- United States--Biography.
Also search under the names of individuals involved with the movement for biographies and diaries (more primary resources)
History E-Books Project http://www.historyebook.org
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