Women's Suffrage

Illustration of quarter featuring Nina Otero-Warren with her hands clasped, three flowers, and the text "Voto Para La Mujer."

Image of 2022 Nina Otero-Warren quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission.

Story

Nina Otero-Warren Improved Education and Fought for Suffrage

Two sides of silver dollar. One side features three profiles of women from 1890s to 1920s, and the other with the year 2020 going into a ballot box

Image of 2020 Women's Suffrage Centennial Silver Dollar. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission.

News

On the Money: Meet the Women Who Created the 2020 Women's Suffrage Centennial Silver Dollar

Text: 1 Century. Image of red, white, and blue poster that says "a woman living here has registered to vote, thereby assuming the responsibility of citizenship"

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Reproduction from The Underground Rail Road by William Still. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates,1872. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

Story

#19SuffrageStories Countdown: Stories 3 to 1

Graphic with text: Storming the House Wilhelmina Dowsett. Photo of Dowsett surrounded by Hawaiian flowers. Illustration of Hawaiian women holding "votes for women" signs.

Story

Eight Women's Voting History Stories You May Not Know

Zitkála-Šá wears indigenous clothing and stares directly into the camera in a sepia photo. Text on image: 4 Years Zitkála-Šá (Yankton Sioux)

Photo of Zitkála-Šá (Yankton Sioux) by Joseph T. Keiley. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Story

#19SuffrageStories Countdown: Stories 9 to 4

Three images: a Native Hawaiian hand placing a vote in a ballot box, a palm tree blowing in the wind, and a map locating Hawai'i in proximity to the U.S. west coast with the text: Hawai'i

Podcast

Podcast Episode: Votes for Hawaiians

Orange flyer with red text. Says: Votes for Women. Oklahoma Woman Suffrage Association at the top. Most of the text is in Chickasaw. Large text added on top of artifact: Chickasaw Women 1910.

Chickasaw woman suffrage handbill, 1910. Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Story

#19SuffrageStories Countdown: Stories 14 to 10

Animation of silhouettes of women with large hats and long dresses on the street. The women in the foreground hold a banner that reads "Mr. President What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage" and the women in the background hold banners.

News

Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment with #19SuffrageStories

Black-and-white photo of woman seated on a stage, wearing a hat and holding a piece of paper and pencil at which she glances down, as if reviewing her notes before speaking. Text: 1915 Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin.

Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin at an NAACP Civil Rights Convention in 1947. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joe Schwartz and Family, © Joe Schwartz

Story

#19SuffrageStories Countdown: Stories 19 to 15