Resources
Learn More About the Movement
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Check out our resources: a lesson plan that follows the five basic steps, and offers engaging activities, thought provoking questions, and links to additional resources; an interactive painting with bios of 100 of the leading figures of the Movement; surprising new research on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women of the Six Nations Confederacy, and their profound influence on our vision of women as equals in society; and the impact of the abolitionists and African American suffragists.
Leading Suffragists & Suffragettes
Explore 100 of the leading figures of the Suffrage Movement via Mireille Miller's interactive painting, Women Leading The Way: Suffragists & Suffragettes. Click on any of the figures to reveal essential biographical data — as well as helpful links to additional information. READ MORE +Native Americans and American Indians
Iroquois women of the Six Nations Confederacy and the matrilineal culture of the Haudenosaunee exerted a profound influence on early feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lucretia Mott — and helped to shape their vision of women as equals. READ MORE +The Abolitionists and African American Suffragists
The Suffrage Movement is rooted in the Abolitionist Movement, which began to advocate for the rights of women as well. Pioneering activists such as Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass overcame tremendous adversity – including discrimination from fellow suffragists – to help win the vote. READ MORE +![](/assets/images/Winning-the-Vote-II.jpg)