Women gained the right to vote (suffrage) with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Initially, women voted in lower percentages than men after gaining suffrage. Today, women vote in larger percentages than men.
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American Memory: Votes for Women
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This collection presents selected items that relate to women’s suffrage.
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Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
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This collection contains photographs of and articles about various members of the National Woman’s Party.
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American Women
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This collection uses Library of Congress manuscript sources to present women’s history, with a section on the suffrage movement.